2009/11/20 James Casbon <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > I was chatting to someone in the http://www.intermine.org/ team. > > They generate what are essentially views on their database which are > assigned unique urls (called templates in intermine terminology). > They want to know if another service is using this url, so that it can > become a 'contract' between two services. > > Should I encourage them to register these 'contract' URLs in CKAN?
I don't see why not though it would be good to have a bit clearer idea of what exactly these urls will represent, how persistent they are and how many of them get generated. It seems to me that the desire to 'cache' a given query (and perhaps even to considerit as a dataset in itself) is an interesting one and likely to become ever more frequent as we have larger single stores of data. Just a few weeks ago I had a conversation with Tony Hirst where he was suggesting something similar to this for complex SPARQL queries ... Regards, Rufus _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
