SPARQLing Neo4J

Abstract

The growth experienced by the internet in the past few years as lead to an increased amount of available data and knowledge obtained from said data. However most of this knowledge is lost due to the lack of associated semantics making the task of interpreting data very hard to computers. To counter this, ontologies provide a extremely solid way to represent data and automatically derive knowledge from it. In this article we’ll present the work being developed with the aim to store and explore ontologies in Neo4J. In order to achieve this a web frontend was developed, integrating a SPARQL to CYPHER translator to allow users to query stored ontologies using SPARQL. This translator and its code generation is the main subject of this paper.