[ckan-discuss] sudo apt-get install data-pkg

Sun Sep 4 12:39:38 BST 2011

>
> making triples like those from DBPedia automatically install into Virtuoso
> is another story

Interesting take. So far I have thought of this in the other direction.
Whoever has the dependency on the data and Virtuoso would take care of the
loading. That is compatible with the way we think of libraries (jars,
etc.) and other dependencies on debian packages. The software that uses it
is supposed to grab them and do something. That way, the responsibility of
processing the downloaded dependencies (e.g. loading data) would lie on the
app (e.g. DBpedia Spotlight) that depends on the data (e.g. DBpedia) and on
a triple store (e.g. Virtuoso). That is the same way that a LAMP app needs
to deploy itself to /var/www and run an import script to the mysql database.

However, in the triple store market, the vendor that implemented such
automation-friendly utilities would likely win karma points.

Cheers,
Pablo

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Egon Willighagen <
egon.willighagen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Pablo Mendes <pablomendes at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I am thinking of a scenario where I'd host my downloads on my server, but
> > would add the metadata to CKAN to point to my files. A ckan-to-apt
> wrapper
> > would then allow me to do something like:
>
> The true power would lie in the fact that these packages could indeed
> install DBPedia into a Virtuoso installed as dependency...
>
> I like this idea, and interesting in thinking about the idea, and
> possibly testing results. I will not have time to contribute
> development time, though, just giving my thumbs up!
>
> At some point I did some patches on the code to convert CRAN into
> Debian packages, and much can indeed be automated. However, making
> triples like those from DBPedia automatically install into Virtuoso is
> another story :) But it would be very user friendly indeed!
>
> Egon
>
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