Stefano, On 29 Jan 2007, at 21:02, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: >>> http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/ >>> >>> What's weird is how they don't have an RDF dump... >> >> Why is this weird? > > because it would prevent crawlers from hitting their web sites. > > If you offer open data as a web service, and you don't provide a dump, > you are basically asking others to consume a lot of your bandwidth in > request/responses.
Well, of course offering something on the Web is asking others to consume your bandwidth. That's the point of being on the Web. Actually, if all you offer is a dump, then anyone who is only interested in a small part of the data will have to download *all* of the data, which will either drive potential users away, or will cost you *more* bandwidth. (I'm coming at this from an RDF browsing perspective, where RDF dumps are useless. I guess you're approaching the question from a "big ol' repository with Longwell on top" perspective, where RDF dumps are nice and convenient. The difference in perspective might sufficiently explain the difference in opinion.) Yours, Richard > > but then again, maybe they don't see enough interests in the data to > justify their spending time in maintaining an RDF dump... or maybe > it's > just dynamically generates from their database, so an RDF dump > would be > just like crawling their own web sites anyway. > > -- > Stefano Mazzocchi > Digital Libraries Research Group Research Scientist > Massachusetts Institute of Technology > E25-131, 77 Massachusetts Ave skype: stefanomazzocchi > Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA email: stefanom at mit . edu > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
