diff -r ac3dc090e987 -r f2a40bbc27f6 server/src/app/Console/Commands/ImportCocoonRDF.php
--- a/server/src/app/Console/Commands/ImportCocoonRDF.php	Fri Nov 13 16:45:27 2015 +0100
+++ b/server/src/app/Console/Commands/ImportCocoonRDF.php	Tue Nov 17 13:11:55 2015 +0100
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 
 class ImportCocoonRDF extends Command {
 
+    const INSERT_TIMEOUT_RETRY = 5;
+
     /**
      * The console command description.
      *
@@ -58,6 +60,8 @@
         $progressBar = $this->output->createProgressBar($recs->getTotalRecordsInCollection());
         $progressBar->setFormat(' %current%/%max% [%bar%] %percent:3s%% - %message%');
 
+        $insertTimeouts = 0;
+
         foreach ($recs as $item) {
 
             $identifier = (string) $item->xpath('/record/header/identifier')[0];
@@ -72,6 +76,7 @@
             $progressBar->advance();
 
             $docUri = config('corpusparole.cocoon_doc_id_base_uri').substr($identifier, strlen(Config::get('corpusparole.cocoon_doc_id_base')));
+
             $resDocs = $gs->query("ASK WHERE { GRAPH <$docUri> { ?s ?p ?o }}");
             if(!$resDocs->getBoolean()) {
                 $docLoaded = false;
@@ -108,8 +113,23 @@
                 //TODO: treat errors
                 $subjects = $doc->resources();
                 $subject = reset($subjects)->getUri();
-                //TODO: exceptions ? but if pb on insert probably we have to fail anyway
-                $gs->insert($doc, $subject);
+                try {
+                    $gs->insert($doc, $subject);
+                }
+                catch(\Exception $e) {
+                    // just log not much we can do here...
+                    $this->error("\nError on insert $identifier ($docRdfUrl) : $e");
+                    Log::error("Error on insert $identifier ($docRdfUrl) : $e");
+                    $code = $e->getCode();
+                    $message = $e->getMessage();
+                    if($e instanceof EasyRdf\Exception && stripos($message, 'timed out')>=0 && $insertTimeout<= ImportCocoonRDF::INSERT_TIMEOUT_RETRY) {
+                        $this->info("\nThis is a timeout, we continue.");
+                        Log::info("This is a timeout, we continue.");
+                        $insertTimeouts++;
+                        continue;
+                    }
+                    throw $e;
+                }
             }
         }
         $progressBar->setMessage("finished");