- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:08:46 -0500
- To: Daniel Schwabe <dschwabe@inf.puc-rio.br>
- CC: public-lod@w3.org
Daniel Schwabe 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 > > -- > Daniel Schwabe > Tel:+55-21-3527 1500 r. 4356 > Fax: +55-21-3527 1530 > http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~dschwabe Dept. de Informatica, PUC-Rio > R. M. de S. Vicente, 225 > Rio de Janeiro, RJ 22453-900, Brasil > > Daniel, Does this help: 1. http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/html/http://rdf.geospecies.org/observations/index.rdf - description of this GeoSpecies information resource 2. http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/html/http://rdf.geospecies.org/observations/index.rdf%23Dataset - VoiD description (in HTML) of the data set exposed by this data space via an rdfs:seeAlso link . -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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