Hi Martin,
I am sure you all agree that PingTheSemanticWeb is a key service for
many of our applications. Unfortunately, it does currently not support
the bulk notification for datasets for which a semantic sitemap is
available.
Since some of you maybe facing the same problem, I just put a short
Python script on-line at
http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/PTSW4Sitemaps
which you can use to notify PingTheSemanticWeb of multiple files using
a given semantic sitemap.
Nice addition, thanks!
However, as I said in the past: PTSW is kind of frozen in time for more
than a year now. Last time we put development effort on it was prior
Giovanni's work on Sitemap; so it explains this lack.
There are also a couple of know bugs that I still have to fix once I
will have some spare time (not much considering what is coming in the
next few weeks. But I really have to do it anyway; so we shall see).
The first priority will be to fix these bugs; the second one could be
some upgrade of the service (handling of sitemaps). But I think that in
mean time (and for some time), this script (or derivate of it using
other programming languages) is certainly a good way to go (and
certainly a way to show how simple web service endpoints can be enhanced
with such collateral projects :) )
Thanks and keep up the good work with GR!
Take care,
Fred
