SPARQL - Anybody seen any good online tutorials?

[LosOjos]

The title pretty much says it all. I've found a few tutorials dotted around online but they all seem a bit vague and too specific to their example data sets.

 

Background: our SEN department need to identify students out of borough, so the plan is to knock a SIMS report (Excel/VBA) together that will do a lookup on the OS Linked Data SPARQL API to find the borough for each post code. I know all the data is there because I can easily browse it via their website but as this needs to be run against over 300 post codes, I'd really like to pull this information via the aforementioned API

[LosOjos]

Well I'm still getting my head around SPARQL and RDF, but I did at least manage to work out the solution to my particular problem:

 

PREFIX rdfs: 
PREFIX postcode: 

SELECT DISTINCT ?district ?name
WHERE {

?postcode rdfs:label "MK3 6EB" ;
postcode:district ?district .
?district rdfs:label ?name  .
}

 

Found this to be a good jumping off point: Tech: A Crash Course in SPARQL

 

All sorted now, still want to pursue SPARQL further though, could come in very handy in the future...