I have often heard people lament the lack of federated systems in the Semantic Web. Certainly, the use of URIs allows data from many different sources to link together seamlessly, and the judicious use of assertions like owl:sameAs can help fill in the gaps, but if a developer wants to do something interesting with data from more than one SPARQL endpoint, they must draw it all in from various locations before merging and linking it all locally. Where is the “webiness” in this data? Wasn’t SPARQL supposed to do all of the processing work for us?