LinqToRdf – SPARQL Query Generation

Progress with the LINQ to RDF Query Provider is continuing apace. I have been pretty tightly focused for the last few days, so I haven’t ad time to post an update. I’ve lately been working on a SPARQL query, which will allow me a much richer palette to play with. Here’s the current version of the LINQ query I’m using to test the RdfSparqlQuery class.

[TestMethod]
public void SparqlQuery()
{
    string urlToRemoteSparqlEndpoint = @http://someUri;
    TripleStore ts = new TripleStore();
    ts.EndpointUri = urlToRemoteSparqlEndpoint;
    ts.QueryType = QueryType.RemoteSparqlStore;
    IRdfQuery<Track> qry = new RDF(ts).ForType<Track>(); 
    var q = from t in qry
        where t.Year == 2006 &&
        t.GenreName == "History 5 | Fall 2006 | UC Berkeley" 
        select new {t.Title, t.FileLocation};
    foreach(var track in q){
        Trace.WriteLine(track.Title + ": " + track.FileLocation);
    }        
}

And here’s what it’s producing as output:

@prefix a: <http://aabs.purl.org/ontologies/2007/04/music#> .

SELECT ?Title, ?FileLocation
WHERE {
?Track <http://aabs.purl.org/ontologies/2007/04/music#title> ?Title .
?Track <http://aabs.purl.org/ontologies/2007/04/music#artistName> ?ArtistName .
?Track <http://aabs.purl.org/ontologies/2007/04/music#albumName> ?AlbumName .
?Track <http://aabs.purl.org/ontologies/2007/04/music#year> ?Year .
?Track <http://aabs.purl.org/ontologies/2007/04/music#genreName> ?GenreName .
?Track <http://aabs.purl.org/ontologies/2007/04/music#comment> ?Comment .
?Track <http://aabs.purl.org/ontologies/2007/04/music#fileLocation> ?FileLocation .
?Track <http://aabs.purl.org/ontologies/2007/04/music#rating> ?Rating .
 FILTER {
    ((t.Year)=(2006^^xsdt:int))&&((t.GenreName)=(“History 5 | Fall 2006 | UC Berkeley”^^xsdt:string))
  }
}

as you can see, the query is fairly close. I just have to:

• Convert the property names in the filters to use the free variable name chosen for the object of a property assertion.
• Restrict the variables enumerated in the graph definition to just those required for the projection (if there is a projection)
• Use the UNION operator to allow disjunctions (OrElse expression types)
• Add the XSDT (XML Schema Datatypes) namespace to the prefixes
• Use standard SPARQL variable syntax for the ?Track

I also need to find a fast back-end SPARQL enabled triple store that I can start to run these queries against. A month or two ago I did a .NET conversion of Jena using IKVM. I may end up going back to that. Any other suggestions would be welcome.

If you want to have a play with it, or take a look at how to produce a LINQ Query provider, then you can use Subversion to get the code from Google. Use the command below:

svn checkout http://linqtordf.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ linqtordf

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