- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:20:11 -0500
- To: Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- CC: "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>
Hugh Glaser wrote: > Thanks for the swift response! > I'm still puzzled - sorry to be slow. > http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/#2 > Says: > Amazon EC2 customers can access this data by creating their own personal Amazon EBS volumes, using the public data set snapshots as a starting point. They can then access, modify and perform computation on these volumes directly using their Amazon EC2 instances and just pay for the compute and storage resources that they use. > > Does this not mean it costs me money on my EC2 account? Or is there some other way of accessing the data? Or am I looking at the wrong bit? > Okay, I see what I overlooked: the cost of paying for an AMI that mounts these EBS volumes, even though Amazon is charging $0.00 for uploading these huge amounts of data where it would usually charge. So to conclude, using the loaded data sets isn't free, but I think we have to be somewhat appreciative of a value here, right? Amazon is providing a service that is ultimately pegged to usage (utility model), and the usage comes down to value associated with that scarce resource called time. > Ie Can you give me a clue how to get at the data without using my credit card please? :-) > You can't you will need someone to build an EC2 service for you and eat the costs on your behalf. Of course such a service isn't impossible in a "Numerati" [1] economy, but we aren't quite there yet, need the Linked Data Web in place first :-) Links: 1. http://tinyurl.com/64gsan Kingsley > Best > Hugh > > On 05/12/2008 02:28, "Kingsley Idehen" <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote: > > > > Hugh Glaser wrote: > >> Exciting stuff, Kingsley. >> I'm not quite sure I have worked out how I might use it though. >> The page says that hosting data is clearly free, but I can't see how to get at it without paying for it as an EC2 customer. >> Is this right? >> Cheers >> >> > Hugh, > > No, shouldn't cost anything if the LOD data sets are hosted in this > particular location :-) > > > Kingsley > >> Hugh >> >> >> On 01/12/2008 15:30, "Kingsley Idehen" <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> All, >> >> Please see: <http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/> ; potentially the >> final destination of all published RDF archives from the LOD cloud. >> >> I've already made a request on behalf of LOD, but additional requests >> from the community will accelerate the general comprehension and >> awareness at Amazon. >> >> Once the data sets are available from Amazon, database constructions >> costs will be significantly alleviated. >> >> We have DBpedia reconstruction down to 1.5 hrs (or less) based on >> Virtuoso's in-built integration with Amazon S3 for backup and >> restoration etc.. We could get the reconstruction of the entire LOD >> cloud down to some interesting numbers once all the data is situated in >> an Amazon data center. >> >> >> -- >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen >> President & CEO >> OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > > > Regards, > > Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen > President & CEO > OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com > > > > > > > > -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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