On 7/11/11 11:39 AM, Michael Hausenblas wrote:
Kingsley, Gio, All,
An idea that arose out of a recent discussion with Juergen (in CC):
how about providing a sort of 'bulk data request' facility for your
SPARQL endpoints [1] [2] (as they are, I gather, the more popular ones
on the WoD ;)?
It could work as follows:
1. Someone uploads a VoID description [3] of the targeted datasets and
provides an email, Twitter, G+ handle or a WebID
2. You could generate the 'customized' dataset internally in a very
efficient manner.
3. Once available, the requester is notified by means of the provided
back-channel from 1.
Yes, I like the fact that WebID, Twitter, and G+ are incorporated into
the suggestion.
I believe such a system in place would lower the crawling and
bulk-query costs re bandwidth, etc. on your end, and opens up a
business opportunity as well (think: WebID <-> Web Payments).
Yes, this is a nice example of DaaS (Data as a Service) pattern.
What do you think?
Nice idea!
Kingsley
Cheers,
Michael
[1] http://lod.openlinksw.com/sparql
[2] http://sparql.sindice.com/
[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/void/
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