title: vSPARQL: a view definition language for the semantic web.
abstract: Translational medicine applications would like to leverage the biological and biomedical ontologies, vocabularies, and data sets available on the semantic web. We present a general solution for RDF information set reuse inspired by database views. Our view definition language, vSPARQL, allows applications to specify the exact content that they are interested in and how that content should be restructured or modified. Applications can access relevant content by querying against these view definitions. We evaluate the expressivity of our approach by defining views for practical use cases and comparing our view definition language to existing query languages.
authors.affiliation: University of Washington, Computer Science and Engineering, Box 352350, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. mar@cs.washington.edu
authors.forename: Marianne
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shaw
authors.forename: Landon T
authors.initials: LT
authors.lastname: Detwiler
authors.forename: Natalya
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Noy
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Brinkley
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Suciu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D035843:Biomedical Research; D019295:Computational Biology; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D011381:Programming Languages; D012660:Semantics; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled
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