Describe authors via a work

Matches a book based on its ISBN and then returns a description of its author or authors.

Source File

select-distinct-author-by-isbn.rq

Author

Leigh Dodds

PREFIX bio: <http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/> PREFIX bibo: <http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/> PREFIX blterms: <http://www.bl.uk/schemas/bibliographic/blterms#> PREFIX dct: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> PREFIX event: <http://purl.org/NET/c4dm/event.owl#> PREFIX foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> PREFIX geo: <http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#> PREFIX isbd: <http://iflastandards.info/ns/isbd/elements/> PREFIX org: <http://www.w3.org/ns/org#> PREFIX owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> PREFIX rda: <http://RDVocab.info/ElementsGr2/> PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> PREFIX skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> PREFIX xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> SELECT DISTINCT ?author WHERE { #Match the book ?uri bibo:isbn10 "0261102214"; #Match its author dct:creator ?author. }

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• http://bnb.data.bl.uk/sparql