CODEWITHSUNDEEP
sparqlsemantic-webdbpedia
Sébastien Barré
Sébastien Barré

Reputation: 164

How should I use SPARQL queries and semantic web?

I am currently building a website which sends SPARQL queries to get information from DBpedia (mostly name of cities which can then be displayed on a map, and further information about this places like number of inhabitants, prominent persons etc).

I would like your opinion about the general use of SPARQL queries and DBpedia:

The second option is much easier for me to implement because and I don't need to worry about the extra database, but if everybody does the same it may surcharge the DBpedia servers?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 136

Answers (2)

TallTed
TallTed

Reputation: 9434

The public DBpedia endpoint which is made available at no cost to the Web community at large may not be suited to such use as you describe -- being the backend to what seems likely to be a freemium service of some kind.

You can instantiate your own mirror of the DBpedia service on AWS or elsewhere, if you need a more consistently available instance.

Upvotes: 2

scotthenninger
scotthenninger

Reputation: 4001

DBPedia is frequently down or unresponsive for the reasons you cite - there can be unanticipated periods of high volume on the servers. So the first choice, caching to a local data store, is probably best.

Upvotes: 2

Related Questions