Dear all,

I don't mean to hijack the thread, but for federation purposes, you might be 
interested in a Triple Pattern Fragments interface [1]. TPF offers lower server 
cost to reach high availability, at the expense of slower queries and higher 
bandwidth [2]. This is possible because the client performs most of the query 
execution.

I noticed the Wikidata SPARQL endpoint has had an excellent track record so far 
(congratulations on this), so the TPF solution might not be necessary for 
server cost / availability reasons.

However, TPF is an excellent solution for federated queries. In (yet to be 
pulbished) experiments, we have verified that the TPF client/server solution 
performs on par with state-of-the-art federation frameworks based on SPARQL 
endpoints for many simple and complex queries. Furthermore, there are no 
security problems etc. ("open proxy"), because all federation is performed by 
the client.

You can see a couple of example queries here with other datasets:
– Works by writers born in Stockholm (VIAF and DBpedia – 
http://bit.ly/writers-stockholm)
– Books by Swedish Nobel prize winners that are in the Harvard Library (VIAF, 
DBpedia, Harvard – http://bit.ly/swedish-nobel-harvard)

It might be a quick win to set up a TPF interface on top of the existing SPARQL 
endpoint.
If you want any info, don't hesitate to ask.

Best,

Ruben

[1] http://linkeddatafragments.org/in-depth/
[2] http://linkeddatafragments.org/publications/iswc2014.pdf
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