Freebase: Discussion about evening

Split off HIV from infection

2010-01-03T12:28:19.0005Z

I suggest splitting off the "Organism Classification", "Virus Classification" and "Ontology Instance" properties and merging these with HIV.

General Support: Question

2010-01-03T10:48:39.0007Z

All data on Freebase is public and licensed under CC-BY, so that's obviously out. I can't speak for what Metaweb may be able to offer you not on Freebase.

Cambridge College of Arts and Technology: Merger

2010-01-03T10:42:56.0014Z

CCAT is one of the previous names for what is now Anglia Ruskin University.

fordmadox: Welcome to Freebase

2010-01-03T10:36:40.0014Z

Hi and welcome to Freebase.

Would it be possible for you to give some indication of what you're trying to use Freebase for? I notice you've created a number of website topics, but the data you've added isn't in a particularly "Freebase-friendly" format. If you could let us know what you're trying to do, we can probably help you integrate with Freebase a bit better.

Thanks!

husseinalaa1987: Please add structured data to Freebase

2010-01-03T10:32:59.0013Z

Hi and welcome to Freebase.

When you're adding data to Freebase, please try and add structured facts rather than just text; for example, you could link your user page to the topic about you and then add more facts from there. Please ask if you've got any questions on how to do things.

I've flagged the topics you've created for deletion, but please feel very free to add the same facts back into Freebase.

clairice: Please be careful when creating new topics

2010-01-03T10:26:46.0013Z

Hi and welcome to Freebase.

Just one little point about your contributions so far: Freebase tries hard to have only one topic for each thing, so you should try to re-use one of the alternatives presented from the dropdown list when possible rather than creating new topics. For example, you created new topics for RAND, Writer and United States of America, rather than reusing the existing ones. I've flagged those three to be merged with the existing topics, but if you could review the rest of your contributions to see if there are any more, than would be appreciated. Thanks!

Please feel free to ask if you have any more questions.

Music: Thematic catalogs

2010-01-03T03:17:02.0013Z

It looks like few changes are proposed which impact on classical music (a pity), which us where most of this catalog stuff would impact.

I would like to see a single structure for 'classical' music compositions which links to composer (obviously) and catalog. That would be the framework on which other bases (opera, works by composer, songs etc. ). could hang.

General Support: Question

2010-01-03T01:24:35.0000Z

Does Freebase / Metaweb have the capability / desire to deal with government classified data sets?

United States House of Representatives: US House of Representatives

2010-01-02T23:25:12.0000Z

Thanks for the tip.

Is this in response to something specific that I can go back and review to see what I screwed up?

United States House of Representatives: US House of Representatives

2010-01-02T19:17:13.0006Z

The US House of Representatives should not be both a Government Office and a Government Body. When associating the House with Politicians, place the House under Body not Office. The Title should be United States Representative.

Mars Petcare Australia: Mars Petcare Australia

2010-01-02T18:37:53.0005Z

Hi doconnor. Mars Petcare Australia is actually a business division, not an actual company. Australia has an online database you can check of registered names and companies. When you search on Mars Petcare you'll see it is a registered tradename of Mars Australia Pty Ltd. I've updated the topic accordingly.

Ramset: Ramset brand

2010-01-02T18:33:02.0000Z

FYI, a brand cannot also be a company, so I moved the product from the Company type and added it to the Brand type.

Music: Thematic catalogs

2010-01-02T17:01:56.0000Z

I think this is a good idea. Some thoughts:

1) It would indeed be beneficial to link composers with their associated catalogs. It would also be good to enable compositions to be associated with their catalog numbers.

2) It would be better for the type to be called Music Catalog rather than Thematic Catalog. "Music catalog" seems to be the more general term and is consistent with Wikipedia e.g. wikipedia's article on the Köchel catalogue is in the Music catalogs category. (As I understand it, a thematic catalog is a kind of music catalog which indexes work by its opening notes -- But i am not a Musicologist!)

3) Expanding on (1) above, if a composition can only be in one catalog (that being the one associated with the composer) then a text field would suffice e.g. "K525" for Eine kleine Nachtmusik. However, it seems likely that more than one catalog could contain the same work, in which case perhaps there should be (following my proposed terminology) a Music Catalog Entry type to link Compositons with Music Catalogs.

Music: Thematic catalogs

2009-12-21T22:38:15.0012Z

The changes under consideration are discussed on our wiki, here. I'm not sure how much of what you're considering would affect or be affected by them (although certainly just creating a schema for thematic catalogs shouldn't affect anything).

Music: Thematic catalogs

2009-12-21T22:14:34.0023Z

A further thought: if big changes to the music structures are planned for the next few months should I hold off doing this?

Music: Thematic catalogs

2009-12-21T22:13:27.0002Z

I think anyone who creates a thematic catalog is almost certainly, in fact, a musicologist but most musicologists do not create catalogs, so I'll change 'musicologist' in the schema to 'thematic catalog creator'.

'Thematic Catalog creator' could then be usefully picked up by anyone who wants to build a base of musicologists.

Music: Thematic catalogs

2009-12-21T20:09:58.0006Z

I second Phil's comment about musicologist. Most musicologists haven't created a thematic catalog, so it would seem a bit odd to have a type for musicologists with only one property which didn't related to the majority of them. (There are lots of commons types with properties that only apply to some of the instances, but those properties aren't typically the only property of the type.) In general, though, I think this would be a useful schema to have in the commons.

Music: Thematic catalogs

2009-12-20T22:40:29.0000Z

One more thought: is someone who creates a thematic catalog automatically a musicologist? (I have no opinion on this due to a complete lack of knowing what I'm talking about). If not, references to "musicologist" should probably become "thematic catalog creator".