STTL - A SPARQL-based Transformation Language for RDF

Olivier Corby, Catherine Faron-Zucker

2015

Abstract

The general research question addressed in this paper is How to transform RDF into other languages. This is of prime interest to present data selected and extracted from the Web of data in a format suitable for the user (e.g., HTML or CSV). Moreover, RDF can be viewed as a meta-model to represent on the Web of data other languages and models. The above research question then becomes How to generate the concrete syntax of expressions of a given language from their RDF representation. To answer these questions, we present SPARQL Template Transformation Language (STTL), a generic RDF transformation rule language, independent from the output language. We conceived it as a lightweight syntactic extension to SPARQL and we show how to compile it into standard SPARQL. We present a generic transformation rule engine implementing STTL and several RDF transformers we defined for various output languages, showing STTL’s expressive power.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Corby O. and Faron-Zucker C. (2015). STTL - A SPARQL-based Transformation Language for RDF . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-758-106-9, pages 466-476. DOI: 10.5220/0005450604660476

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist15,
author={Olivier Corby and Catherine Faron-Zucker},
title={STTL - A SPARQL-based Transformation Language for RDF},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2015},
pages={466-476},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005450604660476},
isbn={978-989-758-106-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - STTL - A SPARQL-based Transformation Language for RDF
SN - 978-989-758-106-9
AU - Corby O.
AU - Faron-Zucker C.
PY - 2015
SP - 466
EP - 476
DO - 10.5220/0005450604660476