SPARQL and TWINKLE

The best way to learn SPARQL is by doing it. Twinkle is a great tool you can use to apply SPARQL queries to DBpedia. With Twinkle, we can execute SPARQL queries against DBpedia and local rdf files.

Download zip file.

Do as follows:

unzip twinkle-2.0-bin.zip -d /usr/local/twinkle

add this to your ~/.bash_alias file

alias twinkle="cd /usr/local/twinkle && java -jar twinkle.jar"

The /usr/local/twinkle/example folder has *.rq files containing sample queries.