DS Catalog:SPARQL Query Service/example queries
Using the SPARQL Query Service for the DS Catalog
This page provides basic example queries for exploring the DS Wikibase using SPARQL, a query language designed for RDF-encoded linked datasets. Familiarity with the properties used in the DS Data Model is helpful for understanding how the queries operate, but the queries also contain comments (noted by the use of hash character "#") to direct users to the individual steps taken to better understand how the query is constructed to derive a solution.
Prefix Declarations
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Basic Example Queries
All manuscript records
These queries will return lists of manuscript records and the associated data values, including both the string value as recorded in the original catalog record (the as_recorded value) and the authority value from a Linked Open Vocabulary to which the as_recorded value has been linked (the authority value).
Find all manuscripts and their...
Associated names/agents
Authors
Artists
Scribes
Former Owners
Other associated names/agents
Centuries of Production
Dates of Production
Dated status
Genres
Holding Institutions
Languages
Materials
Places of Production
Subjects
Titles
Specific manuscript records
These queries will return lists of manuscript records based on or limited by a specific value from an associated DS authority record, including both the string value as recorded in the original catalog record (the as_recorded value) and the authority value from a Linked Open Vocabulary to which the as_recorded value has been linked (the authority value).