- From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:27:49 +0100
- To: "Olivier Rossel" <olivier.rossel@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Semantic Web" <semantic-web@w3.org>
On 23 Jul 2008, at 10:07, Olivier Rossel wrote: > I was wondering how to improve the loading time of RDF files in > semantic web frameworks. > And then came a question: is RDF efficient to load? > The obvious answer is no. I also suspect that this is somewhat overstated. I mean, it's certainly my intuition but you can get good results with effort, it would seem. > Making it readable for humans makes it definitely slower to load in > programs. > So I came to another question: > Is there a computer-optimized format for RDF? > Something that would make it load much faster. > For example by replacing URIs' string by integers, plus a lookup table > for correspondance. Try n-triples first. Then try gzipping it ;) > A nice side effect would be that big RDF would be more compact to > publish > > Are there any studies about improving the format from a > parsing/loading/zipping perspective? Look at all the binary xml stuff. Last I looked the general sentiment wasn't too favorable over gzipping form a pure performance perspective (though to be really good, i guess you need to not have an intermediate full unzip but feed the characters direct). Cheers, Bijan.
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