Re: Owning URIs (Was: Yet Another LOD cloud browser)

Daniel,

I see some interesting concepts worth exploring here, e.g. using windows
(with paging inside the window). But as I refine my query, there isn't any
apparent context that orients me in the data. E.g. how does one box/set
relate to the others.

I notice you're using Sesame, do you think it can scale? I tried selecting
several repositories at once, but the system seems to hang awhile (couple of
minutes)  before returning results.

-sherman

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Daniel Schwabe <dschwabe@inf.puc-rio.br>wrote:

> Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>
>> Daniel Schwabe wrote:
>>
>>> Sherman,
>>> as another alternative, I urge you to take a look at Explorator [1]
>>> (there is a short movie explaining the basic idea, you can also play with
>>> the live interface), which can do all of what you said, and more.
>>> It provides a more general exploration paradigm, of which the example you
>>> give below is only one of the possibilities...
>>>
>>> Best
>>> Daniel
>>> [1] http://www.tecweb.inf.puc-rio.br/explorator.
>>>
>> Daniel,
>>
>> When you speak to the <http://lod.openlinksw.com> instance, do you use
>> SPARQL Protocol or the Faceted Browsing REST API or either depending on task
>> ?
>>
>> I suspect SPARQL protocol,  but please confirm.
>>
>>  We use the SPARQL protocol, because the code is geared to deal with any
> SPARQL endpoint. The only thing we have customize, precisely because of lack
> of standardization, is the FTS function. There is special code to detect
> when the server is Virtuoso, to use bif:contains. Other than that, is uses
> standard constructs.
> If I understand it correctly, the Faceted Browsing REST API would not allow
> us to issue the kinds of queries we need; as I mentioned in earlier
> messages, Explorator is much more than pure faceted browsing.
> Did you have anything specific in mind in this regard?
>
> Cheers
> D.
>



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Thanks,
-sherman

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