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Croatia: Get Spllit in Dalmatia

2008-09-05T18:52:48.0012Z

I totally am into dalmational artworks

Croatia: Get Spllit in Dalmatia

2008-09-05T18:51:34.0021Z

Organization member: Grade of Membership?

2008-09-03T17:28:53.0012Z

I'm assuming that this membership grade would also handle the officers of an organization, e.g, AAAI, IEEE. These folks usually have other full time jobs, so listing a guy like this with these orgs as employers just to have his title entered doesn't seem right. Or perhaps, we should add another property called title to /organization/organization_member?

John A White serves as the Vice President of Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award Foundation.

He also served as the President of the American Institute of Industrial Engineers.

Pierpoint Morgan Library: marked for merge

2008-08-29T07:40:50.0017Z

As of now there is no info in this topic. All moved to Morgan Library.

Pervez Musharraf: President Musharraf

2008-08-29T04:36:25.0012Z

Hi Shaki, and welcome to Freebase. Freebase is a structured database of information about people, places, and other things like that. It's not a political forum. If you'd like to contribute structured information about President Musharraf, such as his political offices held, places lived, etc etc, that would be very welcome. However, if you want a political debate, you'll probably want to go somewhere else for it.

Choummaly Sayasone: Delete

2008-08-26T23:01:34.0017Z

Completely detyped topic, please just delete.

Organism Classification: Conservation Status

2008-08-26T21:57:06.0012Z

IUCN Red List http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/search-basic

This site has a lots of useful info.

Georgia: Georgia

2008-08-26T01:46:30.0012Z

Never mind, made a newby mistake on the filter setting.

Georgia: Georgia

2008-08-26T01:41:55.0017Z

Georgia is the only state that is not listed in alphabetical order. Don't know how to fix that.

Drug: suggested properties

2008-08-26T00:10:44.0028Z

mechanism of action

adult dosing

child dosing

US President: Military Experience of Presidents

2008-08-25T19:02:58.0012Z

Very nice! But please bear in mind that a "military combatant" is an armed force, not a person. Otherwise we end up with an assertion that Zachary Taylor was in command of himself at the Battle of Lake Okeechobee -- always a quality you look for in a commander, of course, but not quite what the schema was meant to represent. :)

Government: Government Office or Title

2008-08-25T18:26:09.0012Z

OK, that's fine. I just wanted to make sure we wanted this by design, and it wasn't an oversight. Thanks

US President: Military Experience of Presidents

2008-08-25T07:44:02.0000Z

Finally, this should work:

http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000008ffcc10

US President: Military Experience of Presidents

2008-08-25T07:37:14.0000Z

Sorry, that link got screwed up. Hopefully this one works:

Filter Table View

US President: Military Experience of Presidents

2008-08-25T07:30:49.0012Z

As a good starting place to explore this information, you should take a look at the Filter Table View. Here's a view that shows all U.S. Presidents who served in the Army as Brigadiers General

To do more detailed searches to do things like aggregate the number of presidents who have served in each branch of the armed services you may want to look into MQL, the Metaweb Query Language.

Hope this gives you a good start.

US President: Military Experience of Presidents

2008-08-25T02:13:18.0018Z

With all the discussion about the military experience of presidential candidates, it would be valid and useful to be able to conduct a search on the rank, conflict, and length of service for presidents.

Government: Government Office or Title

2008-08-25T01:11:28.0012Z

The instance of time served is a particular tenure. Any dated property like this (including band membership, places lived) should have mutiple tenure instances for discontinuous tenures. Take a look at Grover Cleveland for an example.

Government: Government Office or Title

2008-08-24T00:30:29.0017Z

Should the time served under "Government Office or Title" allow for non-consecutive terms? See Peter Clavelle as Mayor of Burlington Vermont.

United Kingdom: Don't merge

2008-08-20T19:45:53.0017Z

The United Kingdom of Great Britian and Northern Ireland is different then just Great Britian; it also includes Northern Ireland (and some other stuff, depending on just how you want to define your various terms). However, this article should be renamed The United Kingdom of Great Britian and Northern Ireland, the correct legal name of the country.

China: Medal Count by Country

2008-08-19T17:01:42.0027Z

Here's a query to see the 2008 Olympic medal count according to Freebase.

Tiger Woods: Championships

2008-08-19T15:47:42.0032Z

I added his Masters Tournament wins in here. As a result, he was typed as a sports team. Is there a better way to enter in individual sports championships?

Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2008: technically, no nomination yet

2008-08-18T15:39:32.0040Z

This is strictly true. However, it seemed a bit silly that the 2008 presidential election itself was being contested by several minor party candidates but no Republican nor Democrat, so I added the presumptives. I won’t put Obama back here, but I think he should be left as one of the contenders of the main election until or unless something really unexpected happens in Denver.

Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2008: technically, no nomination yet

2008-08-18T05:31:24.0005Z

Even though Barack Obama is the presumptive nominee, this isn't official until all delegates have cast their votes at the Democratic National Convention later this month.

Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics: Events Included

2008-08-17T20:30:54.0000Z

Hhmmm, looks like you got them to fill in. Who knows, maybe the system just didn't like my browser that night. Never mind

Pervez Musharraf: President Musharraf

2008-08-16T10:49:17.0005Z

I would like all of the readers to please contribute in your comments whether President Musharraf should resign or should he be punished for his deeds and acts and thrown away from his position.

Please comment what and why ???

Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics: Events Included

2008-08-16T01:03:16.0000Z

Looking at the Gymnastics equivalent, it seems that this is not really a competition, but a set of competitions, best modeled as an Event which contains other Events. I have set it up that way; does it work?

Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics: Events Included

2008-08-15T23:47:39.0010Z

I can't get any of the "Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics" entries to stick in this topic. I've done a ton of other ones and had no problem. Any ideas as to why?

Organization: Organization Type

2008-08-14T22:30:51.0012Z

This is a good suggestion. There's been some discussion about organizations recently on the data-modeling mailing list, so I've forwarded this question to that list, in case the people there have thoughts on it. (I've asked that they post their replies here, rather than on the list.)

Organization: Organization Type

2008-08-14T13:29:41.0018Z

I would like to see organization type added as an attribute. Some examples could be volunteer, social, NGO etc.

Chemical Compound: Curation and more identifieres? ChemSpider, KEGG, etc.

2008-08-13T16:50:01.0012Z

Hi and welcome to freebase!

Thanks for the info about ChemSpider and KEGG. We'll check with those sites about licensing, and if it's compatible with ours, we'll look at loading the data.

Chemical Compound: Curation and more identifieres? ChemSpider, KEGG, etc.

2008-08-13T10:40:02.0006Z

Should we not add more identifiers like the ChemSpider ID, KEGG ID, and some more?

Especially, to combine Wikipedia curation efforts.

Chemical Compound: Dataload from e.g. the Chemical Abstracts Society?

2008-08-13T10:31:55.0000Z

Please note that CAS agreed helping Wikipedia, and please check also the discussion on the ChemSpider blog and the WikiProject/CASvalidation.

Government: Linking Politicians to Parties

2008-08-06T04:23:11.0012Z

Yeah, this is actually what I wanted, but didn't do a good job vocalizing. Oh well. The end result is a plus.

Government: Linking Politicians to Parties

2008-08-06T03:59:08.0012Z

Thanks Jeff. I understand that joguinn was asking for something slightly different but I think that this might still reduce some of the manual labour associated with linking politicians to parties.

Right now, it looks like he's typing Republican Party as an Organization and adding Bob Barr to its members and then on Barr's page it shows that he's a member of an organization called the Republican Party but he also has to add the Republican Party to Bob Barr's party property as part of the Politician type.

Now that Political Party has a reverse link, all he needs to do is set Republican Party as Bob Barr's party and Barr will automatically appear on the Republican Party page as a Politician in this Party.

Government: Duplicate Political Districts

2008-08-06T03:38:33.0012Z

Hmm...I guess there's no easy way to differentiate between identical districts with different juristictions right now.

Government: Duplicate Political Districts

2008-08-05T22:03:50.0012Z

It's not the Wikipedia crawler -- it's Wikipedia itself. If there are two articles for something in Wikipedia, those will both be added to Freebase. Some of them appear not to be true duplicates, but simply provincial and federal ridings with the same name (see the two Brampton Wests: here and here; they have the same name, and appear to use the same map, but they were formed on different dates).

Government: Linking Politicians to Parties

2008-08-05T21:52:34.0012Z

We could do that; I had forgotten that it wasn't reciprocated. In fact, I'll go do that right now. But joguinn's question was about automatically using the party property on the election campaign type to auto-populate the party property on the politician type, which isn't possible.

Government: Duplicate Political Districts

2008-08-05T05:38:00.0005Z

There appear to be a lot of duplicate Political Districts - at least for Canada. Too many for me to flag them all for merge by hand. It could be a problem with the Wikipedia crawler.

Government: Linking Politicians to Parties

2008-08-05T04:24:11.0012Z

Couldn't you get the automatic linking of political parties to politicians simply by enabling the return link for the Political Party Tenure property that is incoming from Politician?

Government: Linking Politicians to Parties

2008-07-24T18:35:59.0012Z

Alright, well thanks. I just figured I'd ask because the party pages are pretty sparse despite the fact that many politicians are identified as members of the parties.

Government: Linking Politicians to Parties

2008-07-24T17:54:54.0000Z

To answer the more general question implied here: There isn't any way to auto-fill properties based the contents of other properties.

Government: Linking Politicians to Parties

2008-07-24T17:08:48.0012Z

It’s kind of a fuzzy question. In some states, anyone registered with a party can run as a candidate with that party, even if they aren’t properly a member or even completely misunderstand the party’s position (such as Ken Hamidi, a Libertarian candidate in the 2003 California gubernatorial recall, who registered Libertarian believing that to be a socialist party). In other states and in many countries, the party as a group chooses its candidates, and so they are necessarily affiliated. Cross-nomination also makes things weird; very few candidates of the Liberal or Conservative parties in New York state are members of those parties, for instance.

Government: Linking Politicians to Parties

2008-07-24T14:50:33.0017Z

Is there any way, besides manually adding each politician to a party's "members" properties, to link a politician to a party? For instance, I have added a lot of campaigns. It should stand to reason that if a candidate runs as a Republican, that person has at some point been a Republican.

Organization member: Grade of Membership?

2008-06-25T01:11:05.0001Z

Well ok then.

Organization member: Grade of Membership?

2008-06-24T22:57:06.0005Z

Ed asks, “Aren’t board members always members?” Not at all. It is common, especially with non-profits, to ask outsiders to sit on a board to assure some independent perspective.

Organization member: Grade of Membership?

2008-06-24T22:18:38.0012Z

I also agree that this would be useful. I thought I made a similar suggestion a couple months ago but could not find it. Part of this suggestion was that "Board members" and other structured classes of membership should be co-typed as "Member". For example, Organization_board_member is linked as a property of Organization but is not linked to "Member" in any way. Aren't board members always members?

Organization member: Grade of Membership?

2008-06-24T21:28:10.0000Z

Seems like a reasonable property to me.

Organization member: Grade of Membership?

2008-06-24T20:27:32.0012Z

I think there is. Since membership is a mediated property, the "grade" of membership would hang off the "organization membership" type. There could be a "class" property that links to an instance of a "membership class" instance, for which we would have to create this new type. Comments?

Organization member: Grade of Membership?

2008-06-23T12:56:47.0012Z

A large number of organizations have varying grade of memberships and associations available for it's members. For an example see Institute of Structural Engineers.

This matters greatly in the type of organisation where the difference between being a Chartered member or not has legal implications in the work of the member.

Is there a way to incorporate this into the schema?

Organism Classification: Conservation Status

2008-06-11T20:37:42.0001Z

I happened to be looking at my state's endangered & threatened wildlife list and they had both state and federal status.

So that might be something to consider. Even if you only want to do federal level, it should be clear that it is.

And something else I just thought of, is you'd probably need a country field, or source/location, so people knew where it was endangered/threatened.