Pronounced "sparkle," SPARQL is a query language from the W3C for searching data defined in the RDF format. RDF is used to tag data on the Web to enable more precise searching. For more information, visit www.w3c.org/2001/sw/DataAccess. See RDF, OWL and Semantic Web.
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