thanks for your comments.

The SPARQL select statement syntax hasn’t changed but the Dbpedia property has. It’s URI is now http://dbpedia.org/ontology/abstract.

The queries below both work with the SNORQL query explorer .

SELECT ?abstract
WHERE {
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Civil_engineering> <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/abstract> ?abstract
}

SELECT ?abstract
FROM NAMED <http://dbpedia.org>
WHERE {
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Civil_engineering> <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/abstract> ?abstract.
FILTER langMatches( lang(?abstract), 'en')
}

I’ll update the queries of the blog above as well.

Cheers,

Richard

I get no results for your example queries in the sparql endpoint or snorql. Same thing with the examples on http://www.snee.com/bobdc.blog/2007/11/querying-dbpedia.html.

I have gotten results for some example queries, but for the vast majority of ones Im seeing on the net, including W3C’s, no results.

Has sparql’s syntax changed in the last couple of yrs or anything?

Frustrating.