Hugh Glaser wrote:
Thanks for the swift response!
I'm still puzzled - sorry to be slow.
http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/#2
Says:
Amazon EC2 customers can access this data by creating their own personal Amazon
EBS volumes, using the public data set snapshots as a starting point. They can
then access, modify and perform computation on these volumes directly using
their Amazon EC2 instances and just pay for the compute and storage resources
that they use.
Does this not mean it costs me money on my EC2 account? Or is there some other way of accessing the data? Or am I looking at the wrong bit?
Okay, I see what I overlooked: the cost of paying for an AMI that mounts
these EBS volumes, even though Amazon is charging $0.00 for uploading
these huge amounts of data where it would usually charge.
So to conclude, using the loaded data sets isn't free, but I think we
have to be somewhat appreciative of a value here, right? Amazon is
providing a service that is ultimately pegged to usage (utility model),
and the usage comes down to value associated with that scarce resource
called time.
Ie Can you give me a clue how to get at the data without using my credit card
please? :-)
You can't you will need someone to build an EC2 service for you and eat
the costs on your behalf. Of course such a service isn't impossible in a
"Numerati" [1] economy, but we aren't quite there yet, need the Linked
Data Web in place first :-)
Links:
1. http://tinyurl.com/64gsan
Kingsley
Best
Hugh
On 05/12/2008 02:28, "Kingsley Idehen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hugh Glaser wrote:
Exciting stuff, Kingsley.
I'm not quite sure I have worked out how I might use it though.
The page says that hosting data is clearly free, but I can't see how to get at
it without paying for it as an EC2 customer.
Is this right?
Cheers
Hugh,
No, shouldn't cost anything if the LOD data sets are hosted in this
particular location :-)
Kingsley
Hugh
On 01/12/2008 15:30, "Kingsley Idehen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
All,
Please see: <http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/> ; potentially the
final destination of all published RDF archives from the LOD cloud.
I've already made a request on behalf of LOD, but additional requests
from the community will accelerate the general comprehension and
awareness at Amazon.
Once the data sets are available from Amazon, database constructions
costs will be significantly alleviated.
We have DBpedia reconstruction down to 1.5 hrs (or less) based on
Virtuoso's in-built integration with Amazon S3 for backup and
restoration etc.. We could get the reconstruction of the entire LOD
cloud down to some interesting numbers once all the data is situated in
an Amazon data center.
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Regards,
Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
President & CEO
OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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Regards,
Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
President & CEO
OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
