Freebase: Discussion about sandos

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?

tfmorris: 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?

tfmorris: 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.

doconnor: 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.

doconnor: 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.

Developer Support: How to extract one number from an object?

2010-01-02T17:15:28.0000Z

Every fact in Freebase can be extracted via the Metaweb Query API. for which there's a very good guide here.

Hope this helps!

Music: Compositional Forms and Sub-forms

2010-01-02T17:05:45.0013Z

Hi, welcome to Freebase and thanks for your contributions so far, which look good to me.

The only reason is because nobody has added that data yet - please do so.

If you have any further questions, please ask and we'll try and answer them as best we can. Cheers!

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: Compositional Forms and Sub-forms

2010-01-02T16:35:43.0013Z

Is there a reason why (for example) the various kinds of concerto, such as "Piano concerto" and "Violin concerto", are not included as sub-forms of "Concerto" (at present only the only sub-form of "Concerto" is "Concerto for Orchestra")?

I am new to freebase. I was thinking of adding these relationships but I don't want to "jump in" and mess things up, so I thought I would ask here.

Airline: Airline designator properties/types

2010-01-02T12:27:28.0013Z

I'm strugggling to understand the value of the IATA/ICAO designator properties on /aviation/airline and the associated types. What does this property/type combination give us that an enumerated property wouldn't?

Split TV Show from Universe

2010-01-01T21:16:20.0000Z

The TV Show / Film series should be a separate topic from the Futurama Universe

Developer Support: How to extract one number from an object?

2010-01-01T17:31:45.0013Z

If I put the link http://www.freebase.com/view/en/new_york on my web page, clicking it will show the page of New York. Under the pictures in the content we see "Population 8,363,710 (2008)". How can I extract only the number 8,363,710 without other part of the web page? Thanks, CWX314

General Support: what browser to use

2010-01-01T16:00:03.0011Z

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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".