mikelove

Frida Kahlo: please split

2008-10-03T19:58:53.0017Z

I mistakenly used the same topic as an Exhibition. oops. please split to create a new topic with type = /user/frankieroberto/exhibitions/exhibition

Claude Monet: Monet's Palate

2008-10-01T17:00:26.0000Z

Has any one seen the film Monet's Palate?

Claude Monet: Monet's Palate

2008-10-01T16:59:17.0017Z

Has any one seen the film Monet's Palate?

Ki Longfellow: "Unique" as a religion

2008-09-27T01:29:08.0012Z

I'm sorry. Just got here. Didn't realize these answers created a page. As I don't know Longfellow's beliefs other than from her latest book, I will delete the word unique. Will this delete the useless page?

Ki Longfellow: "Unique" as a religion

2008-09-25T16:29:57.0012Z

Oops, cross-posting to simonesimone's user profile.

Simone, I should also say, if you have any questions or comments about Freebase, please let us know! You can leave a discussion post anywhere on the site and we'll read it.

Ki Longfellow: "Unique" as a religion

2008-09-25T16:28:30.0017Z

Hi simonesimone, and welcome to Freebase. Thanks for all your contributions so far! I see you added "Unique" as a religion to Ki Longfellow. This created a page called "Unique" which had the type "Religion" which as you can imagine isn't really right. If Ms. Longfellow's religion can't be described in any way that would result in the linked page being an actual religion, then perhaps we should leave it blank. But in my experience, one can usually come up with some kind of term for a religion, even if the name is long and complicated (eg. "Neo-techno-shamanism").

Jack Lewis: Jack Lewis disambiguation

2008-09-08T15:17:16.0012Z

Hi mmcm. This is easy enough to fix for any Freebase user, so feel free to make corrections you find in the future.

I went ahead and created a new entry for the writer of "The Amazing Transparent Man" and updated the associations.

Jack Lewis: Jack Lewis disambiguation

2008-09-06T16:38:38.0017Z

The link to wiki in this article refers to Lord Jack Lewis, a British chemist born in 1928. I'm guessing that this is a different Jack Lewis than the filmwriter and the musician. Anyway to correct the links and delete the incorrect types from this entry?

Influence Node: Chefs in general

2008-08-18T22:34:09.0040Z

Yes I agree we should use all the properties.

Influence Node: Chefs in general

2008-08-18T08:33:13.0013Z

Alex: yes, probably, though I think I want to talk to Mike Love about it first. I'm crossposting over into the Influence Node domain.

If we use it we should probably take all the properties from Influence Node including peers, etc.

Influence Node: Chefs in general

2008-08-18T01:37:48.0012Z

use inShouldn't the chef type the influence node type to specify the chef's influence?

Joseph Stalin: Stalin as a military commander

2008-08-14T18:14:12.0000Z

We have types for military conflicts and commanders -- if you have information about his military career, feel free to add it to the military domain!

Joseph Stalin: Stalin as a military commander

2008-08-14T16:59:33.0017Z

The guy also commanded troops during the Russian civil war, as well as during the Russian-Polish war in early 20's.

Influence Node: Chefs in general

2008-08-13T21:38:06.0012Z

alexbl: signature dish is a great idea!

Influence Node: Chefs in general

2008-08-13T21:25:50.0012Z

And don't forget Wikipedia's Chef infobox as a potential data source.

Influence Node: Chefs in general

2008-08-13T21:08:15.0005Z

Cool! Would be very nice to do an import of celebrity chefs in general. Might also be interesting to have a signature dish property..

Influence Node: Chefs in general

2008-08-12T22:44:52.0005Z

I think the "Chef" type is a good general one that should be worked on. I'm going to try building it out a little, then see if we can move it into a commons domain. I might create some associated types while I'm at it, like a CVT for a chef's association with restaurants over time. Kake and I discussed this on IM one time.

United States: Merge

2008-08-05T00:32:00.0005Z

This topic should be merged to United States.

Stephen Colbert: Stephen Colbert for President

2008-07-25T19:06:10.0000Z

flippity floo!

Yale University: yale college and yale university?

2008-07-24T14:54:09.0000Z

Wikipedia tends to classify by the broadest institution, so there are a lot of actors associated with Yale University instead of the drama school. I think it's fine that we start with the lower-precision classification and as data becomes available, replace it with the more specific.

Apple Inc.: What will be the next bullet of Apple Inc.

2008-07-24T14:32:34.0012Z

this is the interesting questions, I also wondering what would be the next bullet of Apple

Apple Inc.: What will be the next bullet of Apple Inc.

2008-07-24T07:38:50.0017Z

Apple have bring 3G iphone to the market, any idea about what's the next bullet of Apple

Stephen King: Richard Bachman is a pseudonym for Stephen King

2008-07-16T01:26:07.0013Z

The books are all by Stephen King.

mikelove: Tshirt and data mob

2008-06-30T23:06:05.0000Z

I think the best thing to do is roll back influences if they don't affect the creative work of the influencee. There is a creative aspect to all the influence in the graph...scientists, writers, musicians, artists, etc. I think influence is observed in the works created by the influencee. I think the checking of influences to make sure it's more than "I feel inspired by this historical figure" needs to be done by a community, similar to Wikipedia's high bar for "encyclopedic content".

mikelove: Tshirt and data mob

2008-06-23T20:49:52.0000Z

Ae you going to set something uncomplicated up Mike?

Influence: Relationship

2008-06-22T16:52:54.0012Z

Can you explain more?

Influence: Adding influences

2008-06-22T16:52:24.0000Z

There has been some discussion here...

http://freebase.com/discuss/threads/user/mikelove#/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000008611163

...about how to filter only notable people for the applications running on Influence data. We want to allow people to add their influences, but at the same time keep the historical data clean. Wikipedia has it's set of policies around what qualifies as an article. Maybe influence should have an attribute that signals if the person is notable.

Generally, we want influence relationships implying a significant influence on a person's work - not just an interest or an inspiritational figure.

mikelove: Tshirt and data mob

2008-06-22T16:46:09.0012Z

I agree that we do have to filter somehow, and hopefully in a way that is not too complicated. Maybe a 'notable person' attribute.

Influence: Relationship

2008-06-20T22:40:17.0012Z

Is there a topic or a blog for starting a relationship?

mikelove: Tshirt and data mob

2008-06-14T22:16:48.0000Z

Good morning

I just noticed the data mob around the Influence domain initiative, and I find it problematic for application like the influence viewer I wrote.

If half of the person in the graph become "basically unknown" person who feel inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche and alike then it will become quite pain browsing the graph in the search of historical figures and their influneces, since who want for example find me being influenced by Nagarjuna if the user is interested in the influences among Buddhist masters.

I would suggest to introduce some kind of flag attribute indicating which influence node was or is a historical or present figure with some level of publicity to be able to filter for this subgraph most people might be interested in.

The other maybe more clean idea which pops up in my mind would be to declare influence person to be a person who has gained some degree of publicity (or degree of more substantial influence or ...) either now or in the historical context and define influence as a relation between person in general (without having to be an influence node”

just me first ideas, curious what you think about this issue

cheers

martin

mikelove: Tshirt and data mob

2008-06-13T18:09:26.0007Z

Yeah, I agree re: significant influences but I'm not sure I agree about actual teachers/mentors if by that you mean people you've met personally. Take a look at mine and let me know what you think. I've listed a small set of people who I've never met but who have significantly affected my thinking, the way I live, or my creative expression.

Influence: Adding influences

2008-06-12T20:43:56.0005Z

A good way to get started adding influences is to spot missing connections from people already entered. Adding a connection will automatically type the added person as an 'influence node' if they are not typed already.

Martin Dudek's visualization is good for clicking around the graph quickly:

http://goosebumps4all.net/goi/

mikelove: Tshirt and data mob

2008-06-12T20:35:58.0007Z

Sounds good. My only suggestion would be to have people list their actual teachers/mentors or otherwise people that significantly influenced their life work, as opposed to "I really enjoyed reading Jane Doe in college, so I will list her as an influence." What do you think?

mikelove: Tshirt and data mob

2008-06-12T18:39:27.0005Z

Hey, two things.

1) Do you have a Freebase tshirt yet? If not I'd love to send you one. Please let me know your size and postal address by email to kirrily@metaweb.com

2) I'm thinking of doing a data mob around the Influence domain, getting people to enter themselves and who they were influenced by, and then up the tree as far as they can manage. Just wanted to give you a heads-up.

Influence Node: Influences, positive and negative

2008-06-11T20:44:55.0022Z

So in the dataset I first uploaded, I included negative influence as just influence - partly to simplify the project and keep the barrier to entry low enough that it would actually get contributions. There are lots of degrees of influence, but I would err on the side of simplicity so it's easy for people to get going.

I think it's also fair to say David Hume influences Kant, Plato influences Aristotle, or Hegel influences Karl Marx, although the latter in the pair is in many ways rebelling against the core arguments of the former.

Peer Relationship: Problem Querying for Peers

2008-05-04T23:30:20.0007Z

James,

The thing at the end of a peers property is not a Person, and so that query finds no matches. If you query:

"peers":[{"type":null}]

you will see that the object there is one of these Peer Relationships with which this discussion is associated. To find the people in that relationship, you will need to do a query like:

"peers":[{"peers":[{

"type":"/people/person",

"name":null,

"date_of_birth":null

}]}]

That will find all of the participants in all of the peer relationships. However, as the discussion of spouse relationships on the Person type mentions, you will get Ezra Pound as a participant in each of these relationships, and will probably need to filter him out in whatever view you are creating.

Peer Relationship: Problem Querying for Peers

2008-05-04T22:31:56.0005Z

I get back 200 OK status but no data.

Sample query:

{
  "query" : [
    {
      "id" : null,
      "name" : "Ezra Pound",
      "peers" : [
        {
          "date_of_birth" : null,
          "id" : null,
          "limit" : 5,
          "name" : null,
          "type" : "/people/person"
        }
      ],
      "type" : "/influence/influence_node"
    }
  ]
}

Academic Library: Thanks for creating this type!

2008-05-01T18:02:28.0007Z

Yes, I think we shoudl probably model it on how hte public libraries work: Academic Library System (with associated institution), which has associated Academic Libraries.

Academic Library: Thanks for creating this type!

2008-05-01T15:26:38.0000Z

I'd like to see a field for linking it to the affiliated academic institution. A complexity that needs to be addressed is that on many university campuses, there are a number of different libraries, each of which may have its own name. I'd recommend that there be topics for each library on campus and field that links to the overall library system topic page and a field that links to the affiliated academic institution.

I'd do this myself, but I have no clue how to.

Academic Library: Thanks for creating this type!

2008-04-18T18:24:30.0012Z

Thanks so much for creating this type. I've added a couple of topics: the Bodleian Library and Baillieu Library at the University of Melbourne.

Can we help you at all with building this out a bit further? We could add properties for collection size, affiliated academic institution, etc. And then I think we'd probably like to promote it into /library if you'd be interested in that.

Yale University: yale college and yale university?

2008-03-27T22:13:29.0017Z

Or, I suppose you could argue that everyone should be linked to the University itself, but I think that's less useful in the long run (if I'm interested in directors who went to the Yale School of Drama, I'd rather query that than to have to filter Yale Univ. grads by degree [MFA] and field of study [directing, drama, acting, etc.]).

Yale University: yale college and yale university?

2008-03-27T22:10:34.0022Z

It does complicate queries, it's true. Ideally everyone would be linked to the school they graduated from. That said, it's useful to be able to say that someone graduated from Yale University, even if you don't know which school they attended.

Yale University: yale college and yale university?

2008-03-27T21:26:57.0012Z

This is the case, although it complicates queries. Also, many alumni are linked to the university even though they attended Yale College.

Yale University: yale college and yale university?

2008-02-14T23:16:00.0007Z

As near as I can tell, Yale College is the undergraduate college of Yale University, and should therefore be made a constituent school of Yale, along with Yale Law School, Yale School of Drama, etc., which I've now done.

Yale University: yale college and yale university?

2008-02-14T21:56:01.0012Z

shouldn't these two be merged?

-chris

Influence Node: Influences, positive and negative

2008-02-04T14:15:56.0012Z

This is a completely fascinating and powerful collaborative learning tool, and Mike deserves huge credit for getting the ball rolling.

I'd like to think aloud a bit about 'negative' influences, and see what anyone else thinks on this subject. It seems to me that when we refer to influences in a philosophical context, for example, it's generally assumed that we're talking about positive influences, ie.one or more aspects of a known party-of-the-first point of view that end up being utilised or subsumed or in some other fashion became incorporated into the expressed thought of the party-of-the-second. Correct?

However, negative influences can be equally important, in that critical examination and subsequent rejection on stated or unstated grounds very often plays a vital role in determining the subsequent direction of an influencee's thinking and conclusions. These negative influences can be well known, buried in footnotes, or, sometimes, inferred with some degree of confidence.

So, my question is, do negative influences legitimately belong in Mikes influence type, as conceived by him and as utilized by this type's rapid expansion in use? Or does 'influence' require two explicit types, positive and negative? Any thoughts?

Stephen Colbert: Stephen Colbert for President

2007-11-14T23:29:21.0007Z

I agree. Sadly it appears that he's stuck in South Carolina.

Stephen Colbert: Stephen Colbert for President

2007-11-14T19:56:07.0005Z

I think it would be great if Stephen Colbert became a serious contender in the presidential race to shake things up a bit. The famous French comedian made a run for the French presidency in 1980 was at one point had 16% of votes in the polls.

Influence Node: influence vs. refers to (it would make sense to reverse the link direction)

2007-08-23T10:03:39.0005Z

The concepts of 'school' or 'tradition' own a decisive advantage over the concept of influence, as they do not imply a direction of the link.
Infuence implies that a dead person, say Leonardo da Vinci, actively acts on a living person, say Andy Warhol.
In reality the relation points to the past in all cases. Andy Warhol 'refers to' Leonardo da Vinci instead of being activly 'influenced' by the dead artist.
This distinction between 'influence' and different forms of 'refering to' as well as it's implications have been discussed very strikingly by Michael Baxandall in his 'Excursion against Influence', which can be found in his 1985 book 'Patterns of Intention' pp. 58-61.
Functionally the difference between 'influencing' and 'refering to' is equivalent to the difference between 'bibliometric coupling' and 'co-citation' in the field of Bibliometrics. Whereas 'influence' implies a static actor in the past, modern day 'reference' alters our image of the past actor.
A classic example would be 9/11: By refering to films-scenes where high-rise buildings are burning or destroyed, the terrorists changed our perception of films like 'The Fight Club' or 'Die Hard' forever. By 'refering to' the films they changed our perception of the past. On the other hand it would not make sense to sue one of the directors for 'influencing' the terrorists.

Answers to FF Questions

2007-08-22T21:31:40.0012Z

Hi Dan,

I need to use my own type for Fantasy Football positions for a couple of reasons.

1. Each league will have a different number of sets of positions to choose from, and they may or may not map to a position on the /american_football/football_position type. For example, there are Team Quarterbacks, Team Kickers, and Defensive Units that are FF positions, but not American Football positions. In addition, you have two Quarterback positions which can only be distinguished by ID, since there is no offense or defense property. Also, some leagues use Wide Receiver and Tight Ends as distinct positions, while others may use Receiver as a combination of the two. In any case, the Football Position needs to be distinct from the Fantasy Football position.

2. When enumerating types in scripts, I want to be able to control what returns in queries. I can do that with a private type, but not a public type.

As for teams, NFL_Team uses your /american_football/football_team as its type and is definitely redundant with the /football_roster_position/team field. As I mentioned however, redundancy has cause problems with writing to and reading from this subfield and so I added it to my type for simplicity. At this point, it could be eliminated.

As for stats, my only source is TheHuddle.com, as we discussed, and only for projections. Ideally, the Statistic fields would get populated by an XML pull from NFL.com and the projections would be an aggregate of moderated community submissions. I have no knowledge of an XML feed of NFL stats, but would love to locate one. The structure of your source data will likely dictate the actual stats you'd track, and thus structure of the Statistic instances I'd use to record the data, but they'd certainly map to NFL Week, NFL Season, and Player. You'd also want to keep a record of Opponent and Stadium where the stats were compiled.

As for the aggregation of community projections, that's a worthy project in itself and outside my project's current scope.