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Recommendations

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SPARQL New Features and Rationale (2009-07-02)
SPARQL 1.1 Query (2012-11-08) - Proposed Recommendation! Adds support for aggregates, subqueries, projected expressions, and negation to the SPARQL query language.
SPARQL 1.1 Update (2012-11-08) - Proposed Recommendation! Defines an update language for RDF graphs.
SPARQL 1.1 Protocol (2012-11-08) - Candidate Recommendation! Defines an abstract interface and HTTP bindings for a protocol to issue SPARQL Query and SPARQL Update statements against a SPARQL endpoint.
SPARQL 1.1 Service Description (2012-11-08) - Proposed Recommendation! Defines a vocabulary and discovery mechanism for describing the capabilities of a SPARQL endpoint.
SPARQL 1.1 Graph Store HTTP Protocol (2012-11-08) - Candidate Recommendation! Describes the use of the HTTP protocol for managing named RDF graphs on an HTTP server.
SPARQL 1.1 Entailment Regimes (2012-11-08) - Candidate Recommendation! Defines conditions under which SPARQL queries can be used with entailment regimes such as RDF, RDF Schema, OWL, or RIF.
SPARQL 1.1 Federated Query (2012-11-08)- Proposed Recommendation! Defines the syntax and semantics of a SPARQL 1.1 Query extension for executing distributed queries over different endpoints.
SPARQL 1.1 Query Results JSON Format (2012-11-08)- Proposed Recommendation! describes the representation of SELECT and ASK query results using JSON.
SPARQL 1.1 Query Results CSV and TSV Formats (2012-11-08) - Proposed Recommendation! describes the representation of SELECT query results using CSV and TSV.
SPARQL 1.1 Overview (2012-11-08) - Proposed Recommendation! this documents gives an overview over all the documents of the specification.
(SPARQL 1.1 Property Paths (2010-01-26) - Defines a more succinct way to write parts of basic graph patterns and also extend matching of triple pattern to arbitrary length paths. - This has been integrated in SPARQL 1.1 Query since the Oct. 2010 version)