At 01:32 PM 6/23/2011, Sebastian Schaffert wrote:
I am very well aware of the problem of adoption. At the same time, we have a similar problem not only in the publication of the data but also in the consumption: if we do not let users consume our data even in large scale, what use is the data at all? I agree that bombarding a server with crawlers just for harvesting as many triples as possible without thinking about their use is stupid. But it will always happen, no matter how many mails we have on the Linked Data mailinglist.
Yes, however major conferences such as ESWC, ISWC, and WWW could define guidelines for their paper submissions and actually reject papers that are based on denial of service attacks. It became a trend to very much focus on size and invite people to evaluate their results in this respect. In the same way we could define certain criteria that excludes dos attacks for achieving this. Obviously it will not stop all people in the wild out there but it would at least prevent the core of the academic semantic web community to burden their own technological achievements.
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