Tried to adhere to a senior's project involving sparql. Didn't manage to do anything.

@nitnip , SPARQL is not easy at all..

What were you trying to achieve?
Something to do with The Semantic Web or OWL based ontologies?

@bioDan I read the whole O'Reilly book and understood the syntax somewhat. But the project wasn't really about using sparql.

I don't remember very much (knowledge went poof) but it had something to do with deferring the load SPARQL servers had to handle when making huge join queries to the clients. Something to do with brTPF and binary data.