Welcome to the Homepage of SQUIN
The Semantic Web Query Interface SQUIN enables applications to consume Linked Data in an easy manner.
Mission Statement
Our aim is to enable Web applications to consume Linked Data from the Web. With SQUIN we provide a query service as an addition to the LAMP technology stack. This service executes queries over the whole Web of Linked Data and, hence, enables applications to access the whole Web as if it is a single giant database.
News
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November 12th, 2009
We presented SQUIN and the query execution approach implemented by SWClLib and SQUIN at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in Washington, DC and during several other occasions in the US. Read about this trip on the SQUIN blog. Furthermore, during ISWC we used SQUIN to develop a simple Linked Data based application and we wrote about our experiences [...]
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August 14th, 2009
SQUIN understands RDFa due to the new RDFa support in the Semantic Web Client Library. This means the query results provided by SQUIN now also reflect RDF data that is embedded in HTML documents using RDFa.
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August 5th, 2009
Our paper, titled "Executing SPARQL Queries over the Web of Linked Data", has been accepted for this year's International Semantic Web Conference in Washington, DC. The paper describes the approach to query the Web of Linked Data as it is implemented in the Semantic Web Client Library that powers SQUIN.
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June 18th, 2009
Juan presented SQUIN at the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose
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June 18th, 2009
We created a mailing list for SQUIN users.
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May 31st, 2009
Researchers Map won the Scripting Challenge!!!
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May 26th, 2009
We created the first install package of a standalone version of SQUIN. This package can be used to easily set up a SQUIN service on any computer; the only requirement is a recent Java environment. You find the package at the SQUIN project page on SourceForge.net. Beware, the code is pre-alpha! The SQUIN wiki contains a description on how to set up a SQUIN service using the installation package.
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May 24th, 2009
New BGP query handler for the Semantic Web Client Library reduces query times to a Third
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May 23rd, 2009
Researchers Map submitted to Scripting Challenge
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April 4th, 2009
We wrote a very simple SQUIN-based mashup that solely uses linked data. This tiny application shows information about the artist Lily Allen. The data for this mashup comes from the BBC, DBpedia, Freebase, and FlickrWrapper.
You find the mashup at http://researchersmap.informatik.hu-berlin.de/music.php.
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March 27th, 2009
We started a blog for SQUIN.
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January 17th, 2009
We finished Researchers Map, the first simple mash-up application that is based on SQUIN.
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Team
Olaf Hartig
Juan Sequeda
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