Adding RDF Lists and Sequences To Sparql - DataScienceCentral.com

This particular article is a discussion about a recommendation to a given standard, that of SPARQL 1.1. None of this has been implemented yet, and as such represents more or less the muiings of a writer, rather than established functionality. Lately, I've been spending some time on the Github archives of the SPARQL 1.2 Community site, a group of people who are looking at the next generation of the SPARQL language. One challenge that has come up frequently has been the lack of good mechanisms in SPARQL for handling ordered lists, something that has proven to be a limiting factor in a lot of ways, especially given that most other languages have had the ability of handling lists and dictionaries for decades. As I was going through the archives, an answer occurred to me that comes down to the fact that RDF and SPARQL, while very closely related, are not in fact the same things.