Re: The truth about SPARQL Endpoint availability

On 1 Mar 2011, at 00:14, Pierre-Yves Vandenbussche wrote:
> Average 24h and 7days availability are just extra info. Colour associated to an endpoint is given based on its availability right now. That means:
> 
> -a red endpoint is NOT available right now.
> -an orange endpoint is available but had some troubles since last 24h.
> -a green endpoint is available without any trouble since last 24h.

Ok. But my point stands: There's a big difference between “down this very moment” (red) and “has never been up in the last 7 days”. The former might be back in 15 minutes. The latter most likely is gone permanently. I think it would be good to capture that in the choice of color.

Best,
Richard



> 
> May be I should put my legend at table's top.
> 
> Pierre-Yves Vandenbussche.
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> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de> wrote:
> Great work Pierre-Yves!
> 
> Good to see that the CKAN directory is useful for something besides drawing pretty cloud pictures ;-)
> 
> The logo is genius.
> 
> Currently it seems that you get a red light for 75% uptime. 75% uptime sucks, but it is still very different from 0% uptime, which probably means that the site has died completely. So may I propose lowering the threshold between red and yellow a bit?
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> Or maybe the 0% endpoints should simply be displayed black.
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> Finally, could you create a CKAN record for your dataset, following [1]? Because then we could use your tool to verify that your tool is up and running.
> 
> Again, great work.
> 
> Richard
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> [1] http://www.w3.org/wiki/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData/DataSets/CKANmetainformation
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> On 28 Feb 2011, at 18:55, Pierre-Yves Vandenbussche wrote:
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> > Hello all,
> >
> > you have already encountered problems of SPARQL endpoint accessibility ?
> > you feel frustrated they are never available when you need them?
> > you develop an application using these services but wonder if it is reliable?
> >
> > Here is a tool [1] that allows you to know public SPARQL endpoints availability and monitor them in the last hours/days.
> > Stay informed of a particular (or all) endpoint status changes through RSS feeds.
> > All availability information generated by this tool is accessible through a SPARQL endpoint.
> >
> > This tool fetches public SPARQL endpoints from CKAN  open data. From this list, it runs tests every hour for availability.
> >
> > [1] http://labs.mondeca.com/sparqlEndpointsStatus/index.html
> > [2] http://ckan.net/
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> >
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