Kingsley,

On 29 Jan 2013, at 13:58, Kingsley Idehen <kide...@openlinksw.com> wrote:

> On 1/29/13 8:26 AM, Dimitris Kontokostas wrote:
>> Hi Kingsley,
>> 
>> I know that you wrote about this many times in the past but people usually 
>> do not bother to search the archives, plus that the sourceforge search 
>> capabilities are not very user friendly :)
>> 
>> We should start documenting common queries in the DBpedia wiki
>> and this is indeed a very common one. 
>> (Although I must admit that I didn't know about the latest selectivity 
>> behaviour you described)
>> 
>> If this is documented somewhere in the Openlink website we could also put 
>> just a link and the next time someone asks we can just provide the a link to 
>> the answer. 
>> It will save us time in the long run ;)
>> 
>> Best,
>> Dimitris
> 
> Okay.
> 
> Patrick/Hugh: do you have some of the guides relating to this matter? 

[Hugh] This is one on the posts I have made on the matter in the past, could be 
massaged into a public document on the dbpedia web site:

        http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-lod/2011Aug/0028.html

Regards
Hugh

> 
> Links:
> 
> 1. 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8328720/sparql-query-to-get-all-the-possible-movies-available-from-dbpedia
> 
> 2. 
> http://www.openlinksw.com/dataspace/dav/wiki/Main/VirtTipsAndTricksHowToHandleBandwidthLimitExceed
>  ,
> 
> Kingsley 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Kingsley Idehen <kide...@openlinksw.com> 
>> wrote:
>> On 1/29/13 5:12 AM, Julien Cojan wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> This seems to be the same question as in [1], though there was no answer to 
>>> that.
>>> 
>>> The fact that virtuoso doesn't always provide all the results to a query is 
>>> disturbing.
>> 
>> Again, it would be disturbing if it allowed anyone to use the instance 
>> without consideration for others. Do you have any idea how many concurrent 
>> connections hit this instance at any given time of the day, from anywhere on 
>> the Web? 
>>> Is there a way to know when this happens ?
>> Yes, via SPARQL Protocol (an HTTP service) you are able to determine if 
>> results are complete or note. Please understand, we set up this instance 
>> with a specific goal in mind i.e., we are not going to allow crawlers hog 
>> the instance at the expense of others. 
>>> If it's a processing time issue, why doesn't it just fail with a timeout 
>>> exception or a warning as it does sometimes ?
>> 
>> Because you have two parameters in play, a timeout (which you can set) and 
>> total query cost. What you should do is increase the timeout and then use 
>> offset and limit. Tailor it to your needs. You use cursor over the data 
>> instead of blindly asking for everything that matches your query. 
>> 
>> Also note, this is why we provide an Amazon EC2 AMI for you to construct 
>> your own instance and use it exclusively in the manner that works best for 
>> you. Same thing applies if you want to install on your own setup.
>> 
>> Again, DBpedia endpoint is for World Wide access. Its configured to meet 
>> that need.
>> 
>> Please search search on this forum (go back a few years) for examples and 
>> comments about these matters. 
>> 
>> Endpoints:
>> 
>> 1. http://dbpedia.org/sparql -- basic setup
>> 2. http://lod.openlinksw.com/sparql -- larger setup which can handle more 
>> concurrent users and expensive query combos.
>> 
>> 
>> Kingsley 
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Julien
>>> 
>>> [1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=30351258
>>> 
>>> De: "Kingsley Idehen" <kide...@openlinksw.com>
>>> À: dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net
>>> Envoyé: Lundi 28 Janvier 2013 22:36:59
>>> Objet: Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Sparql query vs. web interface
>>> 
>>> On 1/28/13 4:26 PM, Andrea Di Menna wrote:
>>> Thanks Kingsley.
>>> 
>>> Is the same reason why all the resources are not listed in the 
>>> http://dbpedia.org/page/G%C3%BCtersloh page as reverse 
>>> dbpedia-owl:birthPlace property?
>>> 
>>> Yes, since this URL will give varying results, subject what other 
>>> connections to doing with the DBMS:
>>> http://dbpedia.org/sparql?default-graph-uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org&query=prefix+dbpedia-owl%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fontology%2F%3E%0D%0Aselect+%3Fs+where+%7B%3Fs+dbpedia-owl%3AbirthPlace+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FG%25C3%25BCtersloh%3E%7D&format=text%2Fhtml&timeout=0&debug=on
>>> 
>>> Query Definition:
>>> http://dbpedia.org/sparql?default-graph-uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org&qtxt=prefix+dbpedia-owl%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fontology%2F%3E%0D%0Aselect+%3Fs+where+%7B%3Fs+dbpedia-owl%3AbirthPlace+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FG%25C3%25BCtersloh%3E%7D&format=text%2Fhtml&timeout=0&debug=on
>>> 
>>> LOD Cloud:
>>> http://lod.openlinksw.com/sparql?default-graph-uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org&query=prefix+dbpedia-owl%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fontology%2F%3E%0D%0Aselect+%3Fs+where+%7B%3Fs+dbpedia-owl%3AbirthPlace+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FG%25C3%25BCtersloh%3E%7D&format=text%2Fhtml&timeout=0&debug=on
>>> 
>>> Kingsley 
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> 
>>> 2013/1/28 Kingsley Idehen <kide...@openlinksw.com>
>>> On 1/28/13 3:53 PM, Andrea Di Menna wrote:
>>> Hi Kingsley,
>>> 
>>> just wanted to add that sometimes.
>>> 
>>> The same query:
>>> 
>>> http://dbpedia.org/sparql?default-graph-uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org&query=select+%3Fperson+where+%7B%3Fperson+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fontology%2FbirthPlace%3E+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FG%25C3%25BCtersloh%3E+%7D&format=text%2Fhtml&timeout=2000
>>> 
>>> from time to time returns only 5 results (which are the ones shown here 
>>> http://dbpedia.org/page/G%C3%BCtersloh )
>>> 
>>> When the query returns 11 elements they are:
>>> 
>>> http://dbpedia.org/resource/Hans_Werner_Henze
>>> http://dbpedia.org/resource/Diana_Amft
>>> http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ludwig_M%C3%BCller_(theologian)
>>> http://dbpedia.org/resource/Hanns-Heinrich_Lohmann
>>> http://dbpedia.org/resource/Andy_Duguid
>>> http://dbpedia.org/resource/Wolf_Hilbertz
>>> http://dbpedia.org/resource/Simon_Gosejohann
>>> http://dbpedia.org/resource/Friedrich_Daniel_von_Recklinghausen
>>> http://dbpedia.org/resource/Theodor_Rumpel_(surgeon)
>>> http://dbpedia.org/resource/Thorsten_Stuckmann
>>> http://dbpedia.org/resource/Annabel_J%C3%A4ger
>>> 
>>> By checking the first one, you can see that it has 
>>> http://dbpedia.org/page/G%C3%BCtersloh as dbpedia-owl:birthPlace.
>>> But this is not shown in the http://dbpedia.org/page/G%C3%BCtersloh page as 
>>> a reverse property.
>>> 
>>> Do you know what is wrong?
>>> 
>>> Basic SPARQL endpoint is protected by query cost controls based on the 
>>> backed end machine config etc.. That's why I used the lod.openlinksw.com 
>>> instance as an example since that's a bigger machine setup with the same 
>>> data.
>>> 
>>> See: 
>>> http://dbpedia.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FG%25C3%25BCtersloh
>>>  -- this has more results because it makes use of DBMS hosted cursors  for 
>>> scrolling through the dataset . 
>>> 
>>> You can use OFFSET and LIMIT to page through the data. I am sure there are 
>>> some old posts about these matters re. DBpedia's SPARQL endpoint. 
>>> 
>>> Kingsley
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>> 
>>> 2013/1/28 Kingsley Idehen <kide...@openlinksw.com>
>>> On 1/28/13 3:15 PM, Daniel Naber wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I'd like to find all persons born in a given city. At
>>> http://de.dbpedia.org/page/G%C3%BCtersloh I see about 96 persons. When I
>>> query with Sparql, I only get 11. The query I use is this:
>>> 
>>> select ?person where {?person <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/birthPlace>
>>> <http://dbpedia.org/resource/G%C3%BCtersloh>}
>>> 
>>> The endpoint I use is http://dbpedia.org/sparql. How can I get all the
>>> results that are shown on the web page?
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>>   Daniel
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Try:
>>> http://lod.openlinksw.com/sparql?default-graph-uri=&query=select+distinct+%3Fperson+where+%7B%3Fperson+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fontology%2FbirthPlace%3E+%0D%0A%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FG%25C3%25BCtersloh%3E%7D&format=text%2Fhtml&timeout=30000&debug=on
>>> 
>>> Query Definition:
>>> http://lod.openlinksw.com/sparql?default-graph-uri=&qtxt=select+distinct+%3Fperson+where+%7B%3Fperson+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fontology%2FbirthPlace%3E+%0D%0A%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FG%25C3%25BCtersloh%3E%7D&format=text%2Fhtml&timeout=30000&debug=on
>>> 
>>> -- 
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>>> 
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