The Wikimedia Foundation's Discovery and Research teams recently hosted an introductory workshop on the SPARQL query language and the Wikidata Query Service.
We made the video stream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaMdh4fXy18 and materials https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/2016_SPARQL_Workshop (demo queries, slidedecks) from this workshop publicly available.
Guest speakers:
- Ruben Verborgh, *Ghent University* and *Linked Data Fragments* - Benjamin Good, *Scripps Research Institute* and *Gene Wiki* - Tim Putman, *Scripps Research Institute* and *Gene Wiki* - Lucas, *@WikidataFacts*
Dario and Stas
*Dario Taraborelli *Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org • nitens.org • @readermeter http://twitter.com/readermeter