Re: Crawlers and WebID

On 23 Jun 2011, at 23:58, Henry Story wrote:

> Richard  Cyganiak kindly moved the part I wrote up to its own space
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>   http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebID_and_Crawler

Oops, that should have been 

  http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebID_and_Crawlers



> 
> after reformatting the text.
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> 	Henry
> 
> On 23 Jun 2011, at 18:50, Henry Story wrote:
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>> There was a very long discussion on the Linked Data mailing list on issues of student build crawlers going crazy on linked data sites, in such a way that it amounted to a denial of service attacks.
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>> The thread is entitled "Think before you write Semantic Web crawlers"
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>>  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-lod/2011Jun/0499.html
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>> Kingsley and I have been very vocal in urging for WebID enabled crawlers and linked data publishers to solve this problem. I think we even got some good mind share on it.
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>> I wrote up the details here:
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>> http://www.w3.org/wiki/Bad_Crawlers
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>> We could use this as a powerful use case for WebID. Please add improvements on that page, and we should link to it somewhere.
>> 
>> Henry
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>> 
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> Social Web Architect
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