Re: A proposal for handling bulk data requests

On 7/11/11 11:39 AM, Michael Hausenblas wrote:
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> Kingsley, Gio, All,
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> An idea that arose out of a recent discussion with Juergen (in CC): 
> how about providing a sort of 'bulk data request' facility for your 
> SPARQL endpoints [1] [2] (as they are, I gather, the more popular ones 
> on the WoD ;)?
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> It could work as follows:
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> 1. Someone uploads a VoID description [3] of the targeted datasets and 
> provides an email, Twitter, G+ handle or a WebID
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> 2. You could generate the 'customized' dataset internally in a very 
> efficient manner.
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> 3. Once available, the requester is notified by means of the provided 
> back-channel from 1.

Yes, I like the fact that WebID, Twitter, and G+ are incorporated into 
the suggestion.

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> I believe such a system in place would lower the crawling and 
> bulk-query costs re bandwidth, etc. on your end, and opens up a 
> business opportunity as well (think: WebID <-> Web Payments).

Yes, this is a nice example of DaaS (Data as a Service) pattern.
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> What do you think?

Nice idea!

Kingsley
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> Cheers,
>     Michael
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> [1] http://lod.openlinksw.com/sparql
> [2] http://sparql.sindice.com/
> [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/void/
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