Abstract

RDF triplestores have become an appealing option for storing and publishing humanities data, but available technologies for querying this data have drawbacks that make them unsuitable for many applications. Gravsearch (Virtual Graph Search), a SPARQL transformer developed as part of a web-based API, is designed to support complex searches that are desirable in humanities research, while avoiding these disadvantages. It does this by introducing server software that mediates between the client and the triplestore, transforming an input SPARQL query into one or more queries executed by the triplestore. This design suggests a practical way to go beyond some limitations of the ways that RDF data has generally been made available.

中文翻译：

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Gravsearch：转换SPARQL以查询人文数据

摘要

RDF三重存储已成为存储和发布人文数据的吸引人的选择，但是用于查询此数据的可用技术存在一些缺点，这些缺点使它们不适用于许多应用程序。Gravsearch（虚拟图搜索）是作为基于Web的API的一部分开发的SPARQL转换器，旨在支持人文研究中需要的复杂搜索，同时避免了这些缺点。它通过引入在客户端和三元存储之间进行中介的服务器软件，将输入的SPARQL查询转换为由三元存储执行的一个或多个查询来实现此目的。该设计提出了一种实用的方法，可以超越通常提供RDF数据的方式的某些限制。