Freebase: Discussion about typelibrarian

Australian Suburb: SSC

2010-01-04T04:21:14.0013Z

Australian Suburbs can have a "State Suburb Code" according to the ABS.

http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/mf/2033.0.55.001

This would let us reconcile statistics (population, etc) easily.

Australian Suburb: SSC

2010-01-04T04:21:14.0013Z

Australian Suburbs can have a "State Suburb Code" according to the ABS.

http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/mf/2033.0.55.001

This would let us reconcile statistics (population, etc) easily.

Guitarist: Some properties

2010-01-03T21:14:02.0005Z

how bout handedness?

Guitarist: Some properties

2010-01-03T21:14:02.0005Z

how bout handedness?

Hussein Alaa Hussein: حسين علاء اغلى لاعب في الدوري العراقي لهذا الموسم

2010-01-03T18:02:39.0013Z

Defender Hussein Alaa's most expensive player in the Iraqi league حسين علاء اغلى لاعب في الدوري العراقي لهذا الموسم واسط/ الملاعب وقع المدافع العراقي حسين علاء على كشوفات نادي زاخو لمدة موسمين بمبلغ قدره 100مليون دينار عراقي واعتبراغلى لاعب عراقي في الدوري الممتاز بكرة القدم وبراتباً شهرياً قدره(2مليون دينار) ويعد هذا المبلغ اغلى صفقة كروية حصل عليها لاعب عراقي للموسم الجديد الحالي 2009- 2010. وجاء توقيع العقد بعد مفاتحة ادارة النادي للمدافع حسين علاء الذي انهى تجربة احترافية ناجحة في الدوري السوبر الصيني للمحترفين كنادي (جونيون الصيني) وقد باشر اللاعب وحداته التدريبية مع الفريق الذي من المؤمل ان يشكل ركيزة دفاعية تؤمن الخطوط الخلفية لنادي زاخو العائد مجددا الى دوري الاضواء , وتجدر الاشارة الا ان البداية الكروية الاولى للمحترف حسين علاء كانت مع الفئات العمرية لاندية الزوراء والقوة الجوية و ولعب في الدور العراقي الممتاز وكان في سن 14عاما ومثل اندية الجيش والزوراء قبل ان يطرق ابواب الاحتراف في سن مبكرة 15 عاما , وفي عام 2005 كانت رحلته باتجاه ملاعب الخليج في الامارات العربية لثلاثة مواسم مع نادي العين الاماراتي ثم نادي النصر وفي عام 2007 انتقل الى المغرب العربي ومثل اشهر الاندية هناك (كالوداد البيضاوي) ونادي العاصمة (الفتح الرباطي) ونتيجة للمستوى المتميز لهذا اللاعب تعاقد مع نادي الشارقة للموسم الماضي لتمثيل الفريق في بطولة اسيا لابطال الدوري لتكون محطته الاحترافية الاخيرة في الدوري الصيني ومن ثم الانضمام الى نادي زاخو وفي اتصال هاتفي مع اللاعب حسين علاء وهو من سكنة مدينة الكوت مركز محافظة واسط قال: انه يأمل من خلال بوابة زاخو العودة بقوة الى الملاعب المحلية وتحقيق امنيته الغالية وهي تمثيل المنتخب الوطني العراقي وستثبت الايام من خلال المستوى الرائع الذي قدمه هذا اللاعب الذي يتميز بطول قامته بالرغم من صغر سنه ويعتبر اول لاعب عراقي لعب في الدوري المغربي الممتاز والدوري السوبر الصيني حيث تميز بتسجيل عدد من الاهداف في الدوريات التي لعب فيها بالرغم من انه يشغل مدافع قشاش حيث انه يشعر بالسعادة لعودته الى الدوري العراقي وضمن صفوف فرق اندية الدرجة الممتازة للموسم الجديد الحالي 2009-2010 . والجدير بالذكران العقد المذكور قد ابرم من قبل اللاعب حسين علاء مع رئيس نادي زاخو الرياضي عبدالوهاب محمد حيث سيمثل اللاعب فريق زاخو بمنافسات المجموعة الشمالية للدوري العراقي الممتاز بكرة القدم ويعد عملة نادرة حصل عليها نادي زاخو الرياضي لهذا الموسم . Defender Hussein Alaa's most expensive player in the Iraqi league 1

Hussein Alaa Hussein Gools in CHN

Hussein Alaa Hussein: HUSSAIN ALAA * * * best player in ASIA in Qatar 2002

2010-01-03T17:48:51.0005Z

Hussein Alaa Hussein ** Defender Hussein Alaa's most expensive player in the Iraqi league Hussein Alaa Hussein (Arabic: حسين علاء حسين, born August 4, 1987 in Kut, Iraq) is an Iraqi football player who currently plays for Qingdao Jonoon in the China. He usually plays in the Defenders position.

Hussein Alaa Hussein made his name as the star performer in Iraq’s U-17s side managed by Nasrat Nassir and was chosen the best player in Asian Championship qualifiers in Qatar Doha in 2002. His performances earned him an offer of a contract and a chance to gain UAE nationality to play for Al-Ain. The defender spent time in the Emirates having getting a visa through Iraqi coach Jamal Salih, then supervisor of the youth section at Al-Sharjah, but he returned to Iraq to continue his career

 Curriculum Vita  Hussein Alaa Hussein

Professional Lebro defender*Maker playing * Height : 190cm
Favorte foot : Comfortable with both
Weight : 75 currentclub : Qingdao Jonoon CHN Position : Defender back & plays Maker
Birth Date : 4th August 1987

   **Honours ( Individual ] **

Was chosen to be the best player in The Asian Championship that was held in Qatar - Doha for the year 2002
Chosen to be the best professional football player with the AL NASR Club Championship in the periodic EUA football season 2005 / 2006
Played for Al NASR Club with Football cyclic Championship for UAE and won the cup for the season 2005/2006
Chosen to be the best player with AL Ain football Club in the military forces in the championship for the year 2005
Played with the UAE - Al Ain Football Club in UAE for the season 2004/2005
Played in the Olympic Team for the years 2004_2005
Played for Alzawraa Football Club in Teshrean Championship in Syria and won the cup in the year 2003
Play in Al Zawraa club – the first team in the championship held in Alzawraa club and win the cup He was choosen as best player in the championship year 2003
Goal shooter in New Al Zawraa championship years 2003
Chosen as best defender in Kurdistan championship With Iraqi Olympic team

Playing Career Played for Qingdao Jonoon Football Club CHN Premier League 2009/2010
Played for Al-Sharjah Club in UAE Premier League 2008/2009 Played for Al WYDAD Club in morocco League 2007/2008 Played for FUS Club in morocco Premier League2006/2007
Played for Al-Nasr Football Club – Dubai , in 2005/2006 Included in the Iraqi Olympic team during 2004/2005 Played for Al Nasr club Dubai Premier League 2004/2005. Played for Al Ain Club in UAE Premier League 2003/2004.

 **  In IRAQ Club  **

Played for Al Zawraa Club from 2002 to 2003. Played for Al Army Football Club 2001-2002 . Played for Al Naft Football Club from 2001-2002 Played for Al Zawraa Football (Under 14s)1999 *Played for Al Quwa Al Jawiya Under 12s 1998

Started his playing career with Al Quwa Al Jawiya (Under 9s), in 1997

Seatrain Shipbuilding: Seatrain Shipbuilding

2010-01-03T17:15:04.0005Z

Seatrain Shipbuilding Corp. leased a major part of the Brooklyn Navy Yard from 1968-1979. In that time the shipbuilders of Seatrain Shipbuilding, most of comeing from the ranks of the working poor of Brooklyn, built 4 VLCC's [tankers larger than Super tankers], 8 ocean going barges, 1 Ice Breaker Barge and started 2 RO-RO's, work on the Sea Witch to convert it from a burned out container ship into a chemical tanker. The Brooklyn [a VLCC] was the largest ship ever to be built in the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the first VLCC to ever be built in the United States. The Brooklyn was 1,090 feet long, a 140 wide, 90 feet from the keel to the main deck, 70 draft and was 220,000 DWT. The full story can be found in the book Brooklyn Steel-Blood Tenacity by Frank J. Trezza. You can visit www.BrooklynSteel-BloodTenacity.com for more detailed information includeing a slide show inside the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

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?

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?

Computer Emulator: Add emulated peripherals?

2010-01-01T09:42:26.0005Z

Done on sandbox. Unless there are any objections, I'll move this across on Tuesday.

Film: Gross revenue: New Year, new property added to Film

2009-12-31T23:15:53.0018Z

Example is James Cameron's Avatar, which has the most recently publicized US domestic revenue.

http://www.freebase.com/view/en/avatar_2009

We hope to have this possibly become a property that is updated in an automated process from more than on source in the near future. An open question is whether we should also have a world-wide total gross revenue property as well. As it is, the assumption is US domestic gross revenue which can be also ascertained by the use of US currency in dollars. Japanese gross revenue could be implied for a Japanese-made film if the value is put in with Yen currency chosen.

We will monitor how this value is being used, and in future we may replace it with a CVT that is similar to film release date or film format that would capture specific gross revenue data for each region. Unfortunately there is a specific and very well-publicized mechanism for revenue reporting in the USA (domestic and then later, worldwide) and there are differing systems for other notable film regions (France reports attendance by tickets sold, not income from the tickets themselves, I believe).

Resource: What's a /common/resource?

2009-12-31T20:55:49.0000Z

Thanks for the link. Hmmm, can't really tell from that what, if anything, needs to be done with these. The wiki page seems to say that /common/resource would co-typed with something else end would hold/link to a URI, neither of which seems to be true in this case.

Digging deeper it looks like the duplicate topics might be part of some kind of Entertainment Weakly experiment/demo (/base/ew) by Alexander, so copying him to see if they should be merged with the Matt Groening who plays in the Rock Bottom Remainders.

Column: Unsyndicated columns?

2009-12-31T20:21:28.0006Z

This looks good. Example: This View of Life

Resource: What's a /common/resource?

2009-12-31T15:27:20.0013Z

http://wiki.freebase.com/wiki/Webpage_Proposal

Resource: What's a /common/resource?

2009-12-31T07:14:08.0020Z

There are three Matt Groening topics, two of which are of type /common/resource, but there's no documentation for that type, so it's hard to tell if they should be merged with the Person Matt Groening. They appear to have been created by a bot called 'linkbot'.

Any hints?

Column: Unsyndicated columns?

2009-12-28T17:34:37.0000Z

Type created: Collection of columns. Comments requested!

Column: Unsyndicated columns?

2009-12-28T16:56:37.0005Z

Done.

Column: Unsyndicated columns?

2009-12-28T16:24:34.0005Z

Krsalis: If you make me an admin of the columns base, I can create the "Collection of Columns" type and properties.

Column: Unsyndicated columns?

2009-12-22T23:21:32.0000Z

Ahhh, OK. +1 on the new type.

Computer Emulator: Add emulated peripherals?

2009-12-22T04:32:18.0005Z

Column: Unsyndicated columns?

2009-12-22T02:31:23.0000Z

Wait. Back up. The whole "collection of columns" idea was in response to your first reply to this thread, wherein you resisted the notion of creating topics for each individual column, and instead just "start with the column topic, give it a year range, and link that CVT to the collection", as you put it. My thought was that we could use one model for that approach, which would allow people to connect columns to collections without needing to go ahead and create topics for each individual instance of the column; we could still use the existing publication model alongside that to enable people who want to link individual columns. Yes? Or did I completely misunderstand your previous post?

Column: Unsyndicated columns?

2009-12-22T01:02:26.0009Z

Publication can be used to model a collection of columns where each column article is a published work. For columns that don't have individual titles, I'm guessing the topic name would follow TV talk show episodic name format -- like "January 10, 1996". After all, usually it's not the column in its entirety that's collected, but individual pieces, sometimes within a date range, sometimes grouped by subject matter.

Can you elaborate on how exactly "collection of columns" would link the collection to its content? It's not clear to me what the alternative would be.

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.

Column: Unsyndicated columns?

2009-12-21T21:25:08.0030Z

So your suggestion is that the instance of Column itself would be the Published Work? My issue with that is that a long-running column may generate multiple books. For atomic works (stories, essays, poems, etc.), all Publication instances containing that work represent publications of the same single work. However, with Columns, you can't make that assertion -- each Book publication is going to be a completely different subset of articles. It's similar to saying that a Literary Series should be a Published Work if part of the series is collected in book form.

Column: Unsyndicated columns?

2009-12-21T20:47:34.0006Z

Why would we need a new type for "collection of columns"? Publication is used to model collection of short stories today. I don't see why it wouldn't work for columns.

Column: Unsyndicated columns?

2009-12-21T20:12:55.0013Z

Great. Here's where I think we stand with promoting this schema to the commons:

Figure out how to model both syndicated and unsyndicated columns
Create a type for Collection of Columns
Document types and properties.

Did I miss anything?

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.

Computer Emulator: Add emulated peripherals?

2009-12-21T12:26:26.0013Z

One thing it would be nice to be able to model for some work I'm doing is which peripherals are emulated by each emulator - any objections to adding "Peripherals emulated" and "Peripheral classes emulated" to this type, and probably the reverse properties as well?