The Open University ’ s repository of research publications and other research outputs Building SPARQL - Enabled Applications with Android devices

In this paper, we show how features can be added to an Android device (a smartphone) to enable mobile applications to expose data through a SPARQL endpoint. Using simple query federation mechanisms, we describe a demonstrator illustrating how SPARQL-Enabled Android devices can allow us to rapidly develop applications mashing-up data from a collaborative network of sensor-based data sources.