SPAM: A SPARQL Analysis and Manipulation Tool
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What is SPAM?
SPAM is a research prototype for providing help for the development of (well-designed) SPARQL queries. Its main features comprise both, a graphical and textual query editor as well as several functions for the static and dynamic analysis of (well-designed) SPARQL queries. A short summary and introduction can be found in our VLDB 2012 system demo.
SPAM builds upon Apache Jena. Among others, we use it to parse and evaluate SPARQL queries.
Download SPAM
SPAM is written in Java. Below, we provide both, a compiled version of SPAM (SPAM.jar) as well as the source code.- SPAM-2_0.tar.gz (9MB)
An executable .jar file (SPAM-2_0.jar) containing all required dependencies. After extraction, it can be either run from the console with "java -jar SPAM-2_0.jar", or, depending on the operating system by just double-clicking onto the downloaded and extracted file. - SPAM-src-2_0.tar.gz (500kB)
The SPAM source code (Java). Unfortunately, there is hardly any documentation available at this point. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
The dependencies are not contained but should be easily retrieved using Maven.
System Requirements
SPAM requires Java to be available on your system (available at http://java.com).Dependencies
SPAM uses the following software libraries:- Apache Jena (https://jena.apache.org/)
- Apache Commons (Lang) (https://commons.apache.org/)
- JUnit (http://junit.org/)
- Swinglabs (https://java.net/projects/swinglabs)
Disclaimer
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
SPAM WebApp
We are currently working on porting the SPAM tool into a web application. We expect a first version to be available at the end of 2016.Contact
The software was originally developed by Andreas Letelier, Jorge Peres, Reinhard Pichler, and Sebastian Skritek. It has been extended by Andreas Taranetz.
If you have any questions, feedback, other inquiries, or if any problems occur, please feel free to get in contact with us (mail to Sebastian: skritek [at] dbai tuwien ac at)
Funding
The development of SPAM was funded in part by Marie Curie action IRSES under Grant No. 24761 (Net2), and by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) through project ICT08-032 and project ICT12-015. Jorge Perez was supported by Fondecyt grant 11110404 and by VID grant U-Inicia 11/04 Universidad de Chile.