- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 12:46:29 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Seth Russell <seth@robustai.net>
- cc: "Chaudhary, Mark" <Mark.Chaudhary@westgroup.com>, <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Hi Seth, > > From: Seth Russell [mailto:seth@robustai.net] > > Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 9:49 AM > > To: Andreas Eberhart; www-rdf-interest@w3.org > > Subject: Re: Survey of RDF data on the Web > > > > From: "Andreas Eberhart" <andreas.eberhart@i-u.de> > > > > > [2] http://www.i-u.de/schools/eberhart/rdf/ > > > > If you gonna publish data to a RDF interest group, you might get a better > > response if the data was in RDF. > > > > ... just my humble opinion [...] > So? ... read the text of the data in your sailor agent ... While it would be very interesting to see an RDF/XML version of this survey shared with the RDF Interest Group, I'd appreciate it if listmembers took care to balance feature requests with encouragement. There's no such thing as a free survey! Designing and implementing an RDF/XML dump of this data would be good. But it's work; timeconsuming work. So please don't complain when people share their work in this forum. In email, enthusiasm ('hey, what a cool survey, would be even more useful if it was available in RDF') can easily come across as complaint ('this should be in RDF! Plain text data not appropriate here!'). I don't do much chairing on this list, but I do try to encourage folk to make this a list where people are happy to share their work, and their works-in-progress. So... I disagree with the suggestion in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2002Aug/0074.html that people should wait until they've worked out an RDF view of their data before sharing findings with this group. Publish early and often! All that said, I for one would really appreciate an HTML/XHTML version of the report[1], or even a PDF version. I'm often browsing/reading from machines without Postscript installed, and it is also harder to quote from and reference subsections of postscript documents. BTW on the topic of stats from RDF harvesters, I did make a quick attempt at a dump of such info from my 'scutter' harvester for FOAF data. Sample log at [2], more on FOAF at [3]. Software distrib is pre alpha, but can be found c/o [4]. The current log (generated by SQL query from a Postgres DB) lists the number of occurances of each class and property encountered by the harvester. I'd like to extend this to keep stats of class-contextualised property occurances, for eg not just the number of dc:title-s, but the number of dc:title properties applied to any xyz:AudioWork. Hypothesis being that such data could be used for query routing and service aggregation across multiple harvester installations that had different traversal and indexing policies... cheers, Dan [1] http://www.i-u.de/schools/eberhart/rdf/rdf-survey.ps [2] http://rdfweb.org/2002/foaf/scutter/log/vocabstats-2002-7-15.log [3] http://rdfweb.org/foaf/ http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/ http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-foaf.html [4] http://rdfweb.org/2002/foaf/software/ (a GPL'd Ruby RDF harvester) http://rdfweb.org/2002/foaf/scutter/ (unpacked distribution of same) http://rdfweb.org/2002/foaf/scutter/doc/scutter.html (quick overview)
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