Re: [Wikidata-tech] Wikidata Query Backend Update (take two!)

2015-03-06 Thread Nikolas Everett
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Dimitris Kontokostas wrote: > > On Mar 5, 2015 8:50 PM, "Nikolas Everett" wrote: > > 2. How should we represent the data in the database? BlazeGraph (and > only BlazeGraph) has an extension that *could* us called RDR. Should we > use it? > > I don't think RDR

Re: [Wikidata-tech] Wikidata Query Backend Update (take two!)

2015-03-06 Thread Dimitris Kontokostas
On Mar 5, 2015 8:50 PM, "Nikolas Everett" wrote: > > TL/DR: We're selected BlazeGraph to back the next Wikidata Query Service. > > After Titan evaporated about a month ago we went back to the drawing board on back ends for a new Wikidata Query Service. We took four weeks (including a planed trip

Re: [Wikidata-tech] Wikidata Query Backend Update (take two!)

2015-03-06 Thread Markus Krötzsch
On 06.03.2015 15:05, Nikolas Everett wrote: ... Regarding Markus' points: ... The obvious question that comes from this point is "why not use Virtuoso? it is exposed publicly all over the place, you can talk to the dbpedia folks, they do it" and this is a very compelling argument As long as

Re: [Wikidata-tech] Wikidata Query Backend Update (take two!)

2015-03-06 Thread Nikolas Everett
Thanks Magnus! You've been heroic. We'll target getting a version up and running in labs as soon as we can so people can poke holes in it. Regarding Markus' points: BigData == BlazeGraph --- I agree this is confusing, sorry I didn't mention it. When we started th

Re: [Wikidata-tech] Wikidata Query Backend Update (take two!)

2015-03-06 Thread Magnus Manske
Yay progress! :-) I'll try to keep WDQ alive until you have a production version up-and-running. Don't take too long... On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 9:02 AM Markus Krötzsch < mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for all the work. I think this is a sensible decision. What > confused m

Re: [Wikidata-tech] Wikidata Query Backend Update (take two!)

2015-03-06 Thread Markus Krötzsch
Hi, Thanks for all the work. I think this is a sensible decision. What confused me at first is that I did not know BlazeGraph (and when you google for it, the first thing is an unrelated sourceforge project). An important insight for me thus was that "BlazeGraph" is the project that has up un

Re: [Wikidata-tech] Wikidata Query Backend Update (take two!)

2015-03-06 Thread Lydia Pintscher
Thanks, Nik for the writeup and thanks so much to you, Stas and everyone who helped you. It's great to see we're making progress on such an important piece of Wikidata. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tem