Re: ANN: Nature Publishing Group Linked Data Platform

On 5/14/12 7:25 AM, Hammond, Tony wrote:
> Hi Kingsley:
>
>> I assume that for now, you don't have a problem with agents crawling
>> your SPARQL endpoint, if need be?
> While we don't have any problems in principle I would just note that this
> may not be the most efficient way to get the data and that we would end up
> paying for all the queries.

Yes! That's my eternal concern about SPARQL endpoints. I know how 
expensive crawls are, across many dimensions. This is also why at the 
onset of the LOD project there was an agreed best practice re. 
publishing SPARQL endpoints and RDF dumps. In a sense, the cost of not 
having an RDF dump is a SPARQL crawl :-(

>
> I think that this certainly provides us with more impetus to take forward
> our discussions on making dumps available for each dataset. Am hoping you
> might be able to hold back awhiles till we can get a decision on that.

Of course, you would have known by now if we crawled your endpoint 
wholesale. For now, I simply add your endpoint to SPARQL-FED demos, 
which works fine :-)

Kingsley
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tony
>
>
> On 14/05/2012 11:55, "Kingsley Idehen"<kidehen@openlinksw.com>  wrote:
>
>> On 5/14/12 3:53 AM, Hammond, Tony wrote:
>>> As for dumps of our datasets this is something that we are actively
>>> discussing and we are certainly very aware of the value of local hosting.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Tony
>> I assume that for now, you don't have a problem with agents crawling
>> your SPARQL endpoint, if need be?
>
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