Quotation Field for political statements?
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Hi Jeff.
I'm new to FreeBase - just getting into it - researching the "Quotation" field for People - which is looks like you created. Wondering if I can ask you a question about it.My organization is about to have 1000s of people combing through news stories looking for statements that politicians have made about various topics such as envioronment, health care, budget, etc.
It occurred to me that we could contribute all of these attributions to Freebase. I'm wondering if the Quotation field is the proper place to put them. A sample entry might contain the following:
Person: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Subject: Environment
Quote: "We now know that what we've done in the past 100 years has caused such unbelievable damage to the world. We didn't know better, but now we do, and now it's not okay. There are certain things we know will happen in the next 30 to 40 years if we don't roll it back. So we have to start doing it now."
Source: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/04/02/8403410/index.htm
Can you point me in the right direction? Even better, to a simple API script that I could use to make these contributions?
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Sorry I haven't been able to respond sooner. I think that Quotation is the right place for this kind of data. One possible issue is that "source" can't be a weblink -- "source" goes to a topic that represents the place the quotation appeared (in this case, probably an interview titled "The Governator's green agenda"). If you're just copying URLs, though, and not really going for the whole bibliographic nine yards, the URL could go into the "web links" property.
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