Re: Potential Home for LOD Data Sets

my suggestion is that lets just collect few 100$  (10$ each ?) and purchase
a EC2 machine upload it with _all_ semantic data, run a sparql endpoint on
it and keep it running for everyone's use.



On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>wrote:

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> Hugh Glaser wrote:
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>> Thanks for the swift response!
>> I'm still puzzled - sorry to be slow.
>> http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/#2
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>> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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>> Ie Can you give me a clue how to get at the data without using my credit
>> card please? :-)
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> 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 :-)
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> Links:
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> 1. http://tinyurl.com/64gsan
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> Kingsley
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>  Best
>> Hugh
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>> On 05/12/2008 02:28, "Kingsley Idehen" <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:
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>> Hugh Glaser wrote:
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>>> 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
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>> Hugh,
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>> No, shouldn't cost anything if the LOD data sets are hosted in this
>> particular location :-)
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>> Kingsley
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>>> Hugh
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>>> On 01/12/2008 15:30, "Kingsley Idehen" <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:
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>>> All,
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>>> Please see: <http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/> ; potentially the
>>> final destination of all published RDF archives from the LOD cloud.
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>>> 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.
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>>> Once the data sets are available from Amazon, database constructions
>>> costs will be significantly alleviated.
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>>> 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.
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>>> Regards,
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>>> Kingsley Idehen       Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen<http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/%7Ekidehen>
>>> President & CEO
>>> OpenLink Software     Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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>> Kingsley Idehen       Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen<http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/%7Ekidehen>
>> President & CEO
>> OpenLink Software     Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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> President & CEO OpenLink Software     Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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