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SPARQL query composition is difficult for the lay-person or even the experienced bioinformatician in cases where the data model is unfamiliar. Established best-practices and internationalization concerns dictate that semantic web ontologies should use terms with opaque identifiers, further complicating the task. We present SPARQL Assist: a web application that addresses these issues by providing context-sensitive type-ahead completion to existing web forms. Ontological terms are suggested using their labels and descriptions, leveraging existing XML support for internationalization and language-neutrality.
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McCarthy, L., Vandervalk, B. & Wilkinson, M. SPARQL Assist Language Neutral Query Composer. Nat Prec (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/npre.2010.5382.1
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/npre.2010.5382.1