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    Can someone please fix the typography and layout of this page

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    3 posts, latest post: philg, Sep 11, 2008
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    1. obie
      Aug 13, 2008
      obie says:
      Dense, hard-to-understand material is made doubly difficult to read and process by lousy typography. The way that headers and lists are smooshed into each other on this page makes it very difficult to understand.
      2. cheunger
        Aug 13, 2008
        cheunger says:
        Thanks for letting us know - I have heard that it was a bug in this release and will be fixed in the next one.
      3. philg
        Sep 11, 2008
        philg says:
        This is a problem caused by an update in the CSS used to layout the page, and some faulty mark-up in the original file. We hope to have this all fixed in the next couple weeks when the new version of the manual is posted.


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    Clarification required - relationship between namespaces and domains

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    1 post, latest post: willmoffat, May 29, 2008
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    1. willmoffat
      May 29, 2008
      willmoffat says:

      Section 2.4. Domains states that "domain objects are also instances of /type/namespace," which enforce id uniqueness.

      But that doesn't seem to be true as there are only 8 domains co-typed as namespace:  (and 19,000+ domains that aren't).

      Is it true that domains behave like namespaces (without needing to be co-typed)? I did a quick test and it seems like they enforce unqiue ids just like namespaces.

       I think it would be helpful to clarify exactly what are the differences between domains and namespaces.



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    Graph data model

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    2 posts, latest post: skud, Dec 10, 2007
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      Dec 8, 2007
      thsoft says:

      Hi,
      this graph data model is so general and versatile that it should replace the outdated relational model! Do you know about an existing implementation of this on top of a RDBMS in PHP? Or is the Metaweb backend data access layer available under some licence?

      2. skud
        Dec 10, 2007
        skud says:

        Hi thsoft! You probably want to look into RDF and related semantic web technologies. One implementation I recently came across is Mulgara. I don't know much about it except that people were raving about it at a recent conference I attended, and it's meant to be pretty good. It's not in PHP nor does it sit atop an RDBMS, but it is open source software and should be installable on most systems if you want to play with it. If you specifically want a PHP/RDBMS one, hopefully I've given you enough background to help you google for it ;)

        While Freebase's backend is something different again, it can be mapped into RDF for use with applications like Mulgara. I know there are people working on creating a full RDF dump of Freebase for just that sort of purpose. So in theory you could take those RDF dumps and load them into whatever it is that you end up using.

        Best of luck, and let us know how it goes. If you're not already on the freebase developers' mailing list, you might want to join it. That's where most of these conversations usually take place.



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