Quick tutorial

This tutorial is a quick walkthrough for deploying your own Linked Data API using grlc. Since we'll be using grlc's public instance, you don't need to install anything; a GitHub account will do (although sharing queries on GitHub is not mandatory, it's the easiest way to get SPARQL-based APIs quickly up and running). Having your own SPARQL endpoint is optional.

This is the magic recipe (click on the links for further detail):

1. Log into GitHub / create GitHub account
2. Create a repository for queries
3. Put your queries up in your repository
4. Endpoints
5. Describing your queries further
6. Create your Linked Data API
7. Using your Linked Data API
8. Further steps

Log into GitHub / create GitHub account

The first thing we'll need is to log into GitHub. If you don't have a GitHub account, you'll be prompted to create one. Just follow the on-screen instructions.

Create a repository for queries

Once you're logged in, you'll see a dashboard screen similar to this one:

To create a new repository, click on the '''+''' sign in the top right corner of the screen, and then click on New repository.

Fill in the form to give your repository a name, and (optionally) a description. You can keep the rest of the defaults. Make sure the visibility is set to Public (grlc will need this to access the queries we'll store in the repo). When done, click on Create repository.

Put your queries up in your repository

Endpoints

Describing your queries further

Create your Linked Data API

Using your Linked Data API

Further steps