Practical RDF and SPARQL

Intermediate to advanced level RDF, RDFS and SPARQL for knowledge graph development and querying

Created by: Tish Chungoora
Knowledge Graph Consultant | Ph.D. | CSPO | BCS Certified

What Will I Learn?

• Acquire intermediate to advanced level in RDF & SPARQL, including a full understanding of SPARQL Update for CRUD operations
• Apply declarative and automated methods for uplifting an implicit graph vocabulary into an explicit graph schema that utilises RDF Schema (RDFS)
• Perform graph management operations and the querying of default and named graphs
• Build and query RDF Containers and Collections as instance-level structures for providing unordered and ordered groupings of nodes
• Compose federated queries across local and remote databases and performing graph enrichment through query federation and SPARQL Update

Requirements

• Basic understanding of knowledge graph technologies
• Foundational skills in RDF and SPARQL
• A pre-installed RDF graph database, e.g. Blazegraph
• Text/code editor, e.g. Notepad++, Visual Studio Code, TextEdit (Mac), Notepad (Windows)

Target audience

• Data professionals wishing to acquire a deeper understanding of RDF, RDFS and SPARQL
• Data leaders needing to build unparalleled technical expertise in building and managing W3C-compliant knowledge graphs
• Information and solution architects on the journey of upskilling from traditional data modelling approaches to representing data following Semantic Web standards
• Researchers and academics who are progressing in the field of applied Semantic Web technologies