Abstrakt
In the last decade, linked open data (LOD) became the de-facto highest standard of publishing data on the Web, a.k.a. 5-star open data. One of the advantages of LOD is better data discovery thanks to the linkable nature of the data.
Unfortunately, in the wider IT expert community, RDF and SPARQL is considered unnecessarily complex, hard to understand and hard to process, especially when transferring open data in bulk. However, it is this wider IT expert community which is the one supposed to both publish data produced in the public administration as open data, and to build consumer-facing applications on top of the data.
In this paper, we propose an approach to making LOD easily accessible to the community used to CSV files. We propose a tool called Simplod focused on rapid, straightforward and customizable formulation of a SPARQL SELECT query intended for customizable bulk transformation of LOD published in SPARQL endpoints into CSV files.
In addition, Simplod configurations can be stored in and shared via Solid pods.