Hey CNN, SPARQL isn't so difficult.
And like any programming language, it doesn't have to be convoluted.
In the December 17th cnn.com/technology article Making sense of the ‘semantic Web’, Steve Mollman wrote:
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Bob DuCharme
Bob DuCharme's weblog, mostly on technology for representing and linking information.
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Parsing JSON with Python
Amazon's failed folksonomy and Kevin Federline
RDF serialization formats
Selecting all the triples from all the graphs
Editing schemas, ontologies, and SKOS taxonomies with VocBench
SPARQLing anything
Querying for audio on Wikidata
Use SPARQL to query for movies, then watch them
SPARQL queries of the Billboard Hot 100
Visualizing RDF
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