Similar to what facebook does when you ask for a dump of your data. It takes hours/days, but then they eventually send you a URI and you can download a zip file (full of html pages) Juan Sequeda +1-575-SEQ-UEDA www.juansequeda.com On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Michael Hausenblas < michael.hausenblas@deri.org> wrote: > > Kingsley, Gio, All, > > > 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 > ;)? > > It could work as follows: > > > 1. Someone uploads a VoID description [3] of the targeted datasets and > provides an email, Twitter, G+ handle or a WebID > > 2. You could generate the 'customized' dataset internally in a very > efficient manner. > > 3. Once available, the requester is notified by means of the provided > back-channel from 1. > > > 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). > > > What do you think? > > Cheers, > Michael > > [1] http://lod.openlinksw.com/**sparql <http://lod.openlinksw.com/sparql> > [2] http://sparql.sindice.com/ > [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/void/ > > -- > Dr. Michael Hausenblas, Research Fellow > LiDRC - Linked Data Research Centre > DERI - Digital Enterprise Research Institute > NUIG - National University of Ireland, Galway > Ireland, Europe > Tel. +353 91 495730 > http://linkeddata.deri.ie/ > http://sw-app.org/about.html > > >
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