High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle") is an RDF query language; its name is an acronym that stands for SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language. It was made a standard by the RDF Data Access Working Group (DAWG) of the World Wide Web Consortium, and considered as one of the key technologies of semantic web. On 15 January 2008, SPARQL became an official W3C Recommendation.