Re: Finding SPAQL endpoints?

Hi Daniel,

the Semantic Sitemap Extention does that well. (also has the imporant task
to tell the world that dbpedia is not 6 million RDF model but a single one
which is split on the fly)

http://sw.deri.org/2007/07/sitemapextension/

http://dbpedia.org/sitemap.xml

Giovanni

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Daniel Schwabe <dschwabe@inf.puc-rio.br>wrote:

>  All,
>
> Pardon my ignorance, but I could not find an easy way to find the actual
> URL of a sparql endpoint, given the URL of the dataset... I tried querying
> Sindice over voID descriptions, but it didn't work (or maybe I'm making the
> wrong query). In any case, it is not guaranteed that all datasets will have
> a voiD description, even if desirable.
>
> Perhaps a simple convention could be adopted by all repositories to use a
> "standard" url format, such as <url>/sparql, (e.g.,
> http://www.dbpedia.org/sparql), as is being done by many already...
> This could provide a simple automatable way to discover endpoints. I don't
> mean this as a substitute for voiD, but as an inexpensive additional
> alternative...
>
> Cheers
> D
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