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SPIN is a collection of RDF vocabularies enabling the use of SPARQL to define constraints and inference rules on Semantic Web models. SPIN also provides meta-modeling capabilities that allow users to define their own SPARQL functions and query templates. Finally, SPIN includes a ready to use library of common functions.<br/>
Instead of relying on the textual representation of SPARQL expressions, SPIN offers an RDF Schema for SPARQL. As a result, SPARQL queries can be stored as RDF triples together with any RDF domain model. This enables linkage of RDF resources with the associated SPARQL queries as well as sharing and reuse of SPARQL queries as part of Semantic Web models. An RDF vocabulary for SPARQL is the first layer in the SPIN framework.
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Using the SPARQL RDF syntax, SPIN defines a light-weight collection of RDF properties that allow domain modelers to attach inference rules (as SPARQL Construct queries) and constraint checks/unit tests (as Construct or Ask queries) to RDFS or OWL class definitions

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