Discussions on shmandrea

Hi,

First I echo skud's thanks - you've added a lot of data to the Medicine domain which is fantastic.

A tip on naming topics: Unlike Wikipedia where everything is an article and it's difficult to differentiate between a band and a film of the same name, in Freebase such disambiguating information is often unnecessary to include in the topic name itself. So instead of having a topic named "Foo (band)" and another "Foo (film)", in Freebase both would be simply named "Foo". We use types and properties to tell them apart: the first one would be typed as a Musical Group, and the second one will be typed as a film.

For example, instead of creating a duplicate topic for the drug Aspirin which already exists, and naming the duplicate "drug: Aspirin", I recommend 1) using topics that already exist, and 2) when creating new topics, use only the actual name as topic name ("Aspirin" instead of "Drug: Aspirin"), and add types to indicate that info. If you look at the original Aspirin topic, it already has Drug as well as Medical Treatment types applied.

Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks again for being part of the Freebase data community!

Thanks for all your contributions on the subject of medical trials etc.  I'd love to make you one of our "top users" on the homepage but I'm trying to encourage people to have a user picture/avatar before doing so.  When you add a userpic, drop me a line and I'll "top user" you.  (You know, that really doesn't work as a verb.)

 K.