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##Summary
SPARQL is a key technology of the semantic web that has been standardized by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It is a semantic query language that can obtain and work on the data that has been stored in RDF format. The name is an acronym for SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language.
SPARQL allows for queries in triple patterns. Triple patterns are a format of stored data that usually has the subject-predicate-object structure (e.g. "Apple is Red"). This type of data storage is called a "triplestore".
SPARQL has two extensions:
- GeoSPARQL is a collection of standards that makes it possible to query geospatial linked data for the semantic web according to Open Geospatial Consortium standards.
- SPARUL adds the insert, delete and update functionality to the regular SPARQL standard. It is used as the foundation for the W3C recommendation of SPARQL 1.1 Update.
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