Dear all:
The volunteer who is hosting http://openean.kaufkauf.net/id/, a huge set
of GoodRelations product model data, is experiencing a problematic
amount of traffic from unidentified crawlers located in Ireland (DERI?),
the Netherlands (VUA?), and the USA.
The crawling has been so intense that he had to temporarily block all
traffic to this dataset.
In case you are operating any kind of Semantic Web crawlers that tried
to access this dataset, please
1. check your crawler for bugs that create excessive traffic (e.g. by
redundant requests),
2. identify your crawler agent properly in the HTTP header, indicating a
contact person, and
3. implement some bandwidth throttling technique that limits the
bandwidth consumption on a single host to a moderate amount.
Note that the full dataset is always up to date in the LOD SPARQL
endpoint at
http://lod.openlinksw.com/sparql
Thus, there is rarely a need to crawl the complete dataset.
Thanks for your consideration.
Best wishes
Martin Hepp
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martin hepp
e-business& web science research group
universitaet der bundeswehr muenchen
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Check out GoodRelations for E-Commerce on the Web of Linked Data!
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Project page:
http://purl.org/goodrelations/
Resources for developers:
http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations
Webcasts:
Overview - http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/webcast/
How-to - http://vimeo.com/7583816
Recipe for Yahoo SearchMonkey:
http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations_and_Yahoo_SearchMonkey
Talk at the Semantic Technology Conference 2009:
"Semantic Web-based E-Commerce: The GoodRelations Ontology"
http://www.slideshare.net/mhepp/semantic-webbased-ecommerce-the-goodrelations-ontology-1535287
Overview article on Semantic Universe:
http://www.semanticuniverse.com/articles-semantic-web-based-e-commerce-webmasters-get-ready.html
Tutorial materials:
ISWC 2009 Tutorial: The Web of Data for E-Commerce in Brief: A Hands-on
Introduction to the GoodRelations Ontology, RDFa, and Yahoo! SearchMonkey
http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/Web_of_Data_for_E-Commerce_Tutorial_ISWC2009