Standard web caching also has a significant role to play towards robustness in these sorts of situations, without the need for synchronisation of datasets using extra protocols such as ResourceSync. They obviously will have their place, such as keeping local indexes up to date, but may well be overkill to insure against the simple outage scenarios described.
~Richard
On 25 Sep 2013, at 22:19, Simeon Warner <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Critical data will be cached locally (as it is now for many linked data systems). ResourceSync [1] is one project working on effective sychronization methods.
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> Cheers,
> Simeon
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> [1] http://www.openarchives.org/rs
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> On 9/25/13 4:58 PM, J. McRee Elrod wrote:
>> In the last few days my use of the Internet has had two interruptions:
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>> A virus caused me to be taken to advertisements, as opposed to the
>> site I had identified through a Web search. A train derailment in
>> Saskatchewan severed an optic cable, interfering with Web access in
>> Western Canada.
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>> In the brave new world of linked data, will such interrupt ions affect
>> patron aces to bibliographic data, assuming the data must be
>> assembled from a variety of sources?
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>> __ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod ([log in to unmask])
>> {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/
>> ___} |__ \__________________________________________________________
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