Open Bibliography SPARQL endpoint

Example queries

Get 100 article URIs from the set

PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>
PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>

SELECT ?doi WHERE {
  ?doi <http://purl.org/dc/terms/creator> ?o
} LIMIT 100

Get information about a given DOI (eg doi:10.1107/S1600536808031681)

PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>
PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>

select ?y ?z where {
  <doi:10.1107/S1600536808031681> ?y ?z
}

Get information about an author (given their URI, eg info:author:1686f4354515c3b2fca710ca5745de8ee8e45c1c)

PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>
PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>

select ?y ?z where {
  <info:author:1686f4354515c3b2fca710ca5745de8ee8e45c1c> ?y ?z
}

Get 10 random names from the datasets

PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>
PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>

SELECT ?name WHERE {
  ?s <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name> ?name
} LIMIT 10

Given an email (w.harrison@abdn.ac.uk), lookup the titles and DOIs associated with this author.

PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>
PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>

SELECT ?title ?doi WHERE {
  ?authornode <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/mbox> "w.harrison@abdn.ac.uk" .
  ?doi <http://purl.org/dc/terms/creator> ?authornode .
  ?doi <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/title> ?title
} LIMIT 100

Lookup which papers have been authored by people at a given address (must be a strict match I'm afraid)

PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>
PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>

SELECT ?title ?doi WHERE {
 ?s ?p "X-ray Crystallography Unit\n      School of Physics\n      Universiti Sains Malaysia\n      11800 USM, Penang\n      Malaysia" .
 ?doi <http://purl.org/dc/terms/creator> ?s .
 ?doi <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/title> ?title
} LIMIT 100

Lookup the papers authored by a given author, identified by phone number (eg tel:+441224272897)

PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>
PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>

SELECT ?doi ?title ?name WHERE {
  ?s <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/phone> <tel:+441224272897> .
  ?s <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name> ?name .
  ?doi <http://purl.org/dc/terms/creator> ?s .
  ?doi <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/title> ?title
} LIMIT 10

Show the rights information associated with the articles within this store:

PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>
PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>

select distinct ?rights where {
  ?doi <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/rights> ?rights .
  ?doi <http://purl.org/dc/terms/creator> ?author
}