SPARQL Protocol API

Standard SPARQL 1.1 Protocol HTTP endpoints for executing queries and updates against RDF datasets, plus the Graph Store HTTP Protocol for direct management of named graphs and the default graph, as defined by the W3C Recommendation.

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name: SPARQL Protocol API
description: Standard SPARQL 1.1 Protocol HTTP endpoints for executing queries and updates against RDF
  datasets, plus the Graph Store HTTP Protocol for direct management of named graphs and the default graph,
  as defined by the W3C Recommendation.
humanURL: https://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-protocol/
baseURL: https://dbpedia.org/sparql
version: '1.1'
tags:
- Graph Store
- Query
- RDF
- SPARQL
tags_raw:
- Graph Store
- Query
- RDF
- SPARQL
- Update
properties:
- type: x-openapi
  url: openapi/_original/openapi.yml
- type: x-json-schema
  url: json-schema.json
- type: x-json-ld-context
  url: json-ld-context.jsonld
- type: x-documentation
  url: https://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-overview/
- type: x-specification
  url: https://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-protocol/
- type: x-specification
  url: https://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/
- type: x-specification
  url: https://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-results-json/
contact:
- type: x-website
  url: https://www.w3.org/
- type: x-github
  url: https://github.com/w3c/sparql-query