A comparison of the cognitive difficulties posed by SPARQL query constructs
- Submitting institution
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The Open University
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 1631704
- Type
- E - Conference contribution
- DOI
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10.1007/978-3-030-61244-3_1
- Title of conference / published proceedings
- 22nd International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2020)
- First page
- 3
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- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-61244-3_1
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- This paper, accepted at EKAW 2020 (17% acceptance for full papers), describes the first empirical study on the usability of the SPARQL query language. It identifies difficulties with SPARQL constructs and provides recommendations about syntactic changes required to address them. The findings are important for domain specialists (e.g., in humanities or bioinformatics), who use SPARQL to access data, as well as researchers in query languages, in particular tool designers. The recommendations have been adopted by the EU H2020 Polifonia project (https://polifonia-project.eu), which is developing novel tools to facilitate analysis of relevant data sources by specialists in the music domain.
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- Non-English
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