[MOBY-dev] http://mobycentral.icapture.ubc.ca:8090/authority/ValidateService?getDeadServices

[Edward Kawas]

ServiceInstance rdf generation shouldn't be too slow (all of the time -
there is some caching). As for a per instance rdf generation, I don't know.
It shouldn't be that slow (~10 secs per service).

Eddie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: moby-dev-bounces at lists.open-bio.org [mailto:moby-dev-
> bounces at lists.open-bio.org] On Behalf Of Mark Wilkinson
> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 12:21 PM
> To: Core developer announcements
> Subject: Re: [MOBY-
> dev]http://mobycentral.icapture.ubc.ca:8090/authority/ValidateService?getD
> eadServices
> 
> On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:00:46 -0700, Edward Kawas <edward.kawas at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > How about:
> >
> >
> http://mobycentral.icapture.ubc.ca:8090/authority/ValidateService?authorit
> y=
> > bioinfo.icapture.ubc.ca&service=getGoTerm
> >
> > where you specify the authority and servicename and true or false is
> > returned.
> 
> 
> Yeah... but that isn't a part of the Moby API so we don't want to
> encourage people to code to it.  I suspect nobody would object to me
> adding a tag to the output from findService that included the isAlive
> information?
> 
> It's a shame, though... I think it says something important about the
> Semantic Web in general - all this metadata retrieval can potentially take
> a long time!  Caching isn't going to help much in this case, since the
> status may change hour by hour (e.g. if a domain disappears briefly).
> 
> Eddie, do you have a "gut feeling" for why LSID resolution for service
> instances is so slow?  Is it the RDF generation on our end that sucks-up
> all the time?
> 
> M
> 
> 
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