# Download the RDF data for a particular resource (or, resp., Wikipedia page) from Dpedia, e.g. for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankt_P%C3%B6lten: curl -H "Accept: application/rdf+xml" -L http://live.dbpedia.org/resource/Sankt_Pölten # Download the results of a query # e.g. all information about strikers in "La Liga" # 1) let's start with looking at an example: http://live.dbpedia.org/page/Diego_Costa # ... here we find that Diego Costa play on position Forward, i.e. # dbpedia:Diego_Costa prop:position dbpedia:Forward_(association_football) . # and that his team is # dbpedia:Diego_Costa dbpedia-owl:team dbpedia:Atl%C3%A9tico_Madrid . # if we click further on dbpedia:Atl%C3%A9tico_Madrid ... we find that: # dbpedia:Atl%C3%A9tico_Madrid dbpedia-owl:league dbpedia:La_Liga . # 2) From this, we can forumlate a SPARQL query # to ask for strikers playin in La Liga: PREFIX dbpedia: PREFIX dbpedia-owl: PREFIX prop: SELECT DISTINCT ?X ?T WHERE { ?X prop:position ; dbpedia-owl:team ?T . ?T dbpedia-owl:league dbpedia:La_Liga . } # We can now send this query to live.dbpedia.org via curl: # ... assuming the query is in the file named 'strikers_from_dbpedia.rq' curl "http://live.dbpedia.org/sparql" -F 'query=@strikers_from_dbpedia.rq' -H 'Accept: text/csv'