Snip!t from collection of Alan Dix

<p>SPARQL/Update is a language to express updates to an RDF store. It is intended to be a standard mechanism by which updates to a remote RDF Store can be described, communicated and stored. SPARQL/Update is a companion language to SPARQL and is envisaged to be used in conjunction with SPARQL query language. The reuse of the SPARQL syntax, in both style and detail, reduces the learning curve for developers and reduces implementation costs.</p> <p>SPARQL/Update provides the following facilities:</p> <ul> <li>Insert new triples to an RDF graph.</li> <li>Delete triples from an RDF graph.</li> <li>Perform a group of update operations as a single action.</li> <li>Create a new RDF Graph to a Graph Store.</li> <li>Delete an RDF graph from a Graph Store.</li> </ul> <p>See also:</p> <ul> <li>the wiki page <a href="http://esw.w3.org/topic/SparqlUpdateLanguage">SparqlUpdateLanguage</a> for a related proposal</li> <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Diff">Delta: an ontology for the distribution of differences between RDF graphs</a></li></ul>