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Acronym

The acronym definition was recently anonymously changed from “SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language” to “Simple Protocol and RDF Query Language.” The W3C Candidate Recommendation (6 April 2006) still uses the former. Is there a reference for it being changed? If it has changed, this article should be edited to not call it a recursive acronym. —Fleminra 01:32, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

- The acronym change seems spurious, I've changed it back. See proposal, working group resolution Danja 17:12, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Who's using SPARQL?

If SPARQL is such a good thing why is everybody not using it? Another standard the query language SQL is used everywhere in the database world. Perhaps the answer is too general and does not belong in this article. Newschapmj1 (talk) 20:22, 28 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Everyone" is, for meanings of everyone that extend to those querying triple stores rather than the Codd-model RDBMS that SQL addresses. Rather we should ask why triple stores and tools for working with semi-structured data (data that has an emergent structure, but not a prior published schema to say what this will be) are still so rare, compared to shoe-horning this same sort of data into rigid RDBMS schema that make it difficult to work with. Andy Dingley (talk) 20:28, 28 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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