Re: HCLSIG April 6 telecon logistics and agenda

2006-04-05 Thread Brian Gilman
I'd greatly appreciate it if someone else would scribe this week? Can someone volunteer? Thanks in advance!! -B -- Brian Gilman President Panther Informatics Inc. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

HCLSIG April 6 telecon logistics and agenda

2006-04-05 Thread Eric Neumann
Planned 4-6-06 HCLSig Teleconference Agenda: Time: 11:00 am EDT April 20 2006 in America/New York for a duration of 1 hour Phone: tel:+1-617-761-6200 (Zakim) conference #4257 (HCLS) irc://irc.w3.org:6665/hcls Chairs: Eric Neumann, Tonya Hongsermeier Scribe: Brian Gilman a) Convene, take roll, r

Re: [BioRDF] Scalability

2006-04-05 Thread Danny Ayers
On 4/5/06, Gary Schiltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I wonder if RAM is becoming faster/cheaper > at a sufficiently fast rate to keep up with or outpace the growth of our > databases of RDF triples - I suspect not. Ian Foster : [[ A useful metric for the rate of technological change is the averag

Re: [BioRDF] Scalability

2006-04-05 Thread Gary Schiltz
I haven't used it for RDF storage, but the page for SWI-Prolog's Semantic Web library (www.swi-prolog.org/packages/semweb.html) claims to have been "actively used with up to 10 million triples, using approximately 1GB of memory." I wonder if RAM is becoming faster/cheaper at a sufficiently fa

Re: [BioRDF] Scalability

2006-04-05 Thread Ora Lassila
Matt, what kind of an in-memory database do you use? I have done some preliminary experiments with UniProt etc. data with about 2 million triples using our OINK browser (built using the Wilbur toolkit). Performance was very "interactive" (i.e., "snappy", notice my highly precise metrics here ;-)

Re: [BioRDF] Scalability

2006-04-05 Thread Nikesh Kotecha
Hi,   We recently implemented RDF-based queries of BioPAX formatted pathway data (pkb.stanford.edu) and echo the sentiments about query and storage technologies.  In our case, scalability/performance is related to the complexity of the query and RDF model and less on the parsing and sending reso