Freebase: Discussion about Freebase Data Team

The Gene Wars universe: Fictional universe and/or series?

2009-12-28T02:24:10.0010Z

From the Wikipedia description, this topic should be a fictional universe (and/or a series)?

Finisterre universe: Series and/or fictional universe?

2009-12-28T02:22:35.0006Z

From the Wikipedia description, this topic should be a fictional universe (and/or a series)?

Intermediate Unit: This topic can be removed

2009-12-27T19:37:38.0005Z

It's OK to have both a type and a topic for the same concept. See for example U.S. state and US State.

Muriel Brassler: Murial Brassler Alive and Well!

2009-12-27T19:06:18.0013Z

You can fix this kind of thing by just clicking "edit topic". I've removed the Fictional Character type and added the Person type. Feel free to fill any details that you know about her (birthdate, birth place, etc).

Help Center: Error Messages

2009-12-27T16:08:18.0000Z

zing!

General Support: I have about 800 videos on my website

2009-12-27T13:27:33.0018Z

I have about 800 videos on my website. They are flash based videos. I have 13 xspf xml playlists I play them from. What are the logical steps for me to take to place them in freebase. I have started by adding: film/title film/creator film/location [direct flv file URL] film/image {the thumbnail film/description to my zeropointv databse. The above essentially pulled from my XML playlists and the way those playlists are formatted. Am I heading in the right direction or should I delete all and start over? What this is going towards is my being able to load a java based media browser on my home index page, and then using it's search function to pull up the flash videos on my website. Any help and direction is gratefully appreciated.

Intermediate Unit: This topic can be removed

2009-12-27T04:38:49.0013Z

A full type has been defined to incorporate its intent and content. It is not a thing, but a type of thing. At your convenience...

Help Center: Error Messages

2009-12-27T01:05:57.0000Z

hey its 2 years later. what gives?

Pia Fajelagutan: Real Name

2009-12-25T18:14:11.0013Z

The surname might be wrong, By the way. is it spelled like that?

Pia Fajelagutan: Real Name

2009-12-25T18:13:41.0006Z

Is that Pia Fajelagutan's real name? Simply that? No other aliases either? I was finding it hard to get more info on her. Please verify.

General Support: Barcode & Catalog Number

2009-12-25T08:31:41.0013Z

Thanks Tom for this explanation.

Phil.B

General Support: Barcode & Catalog Number

2009-12-24T23:24:13.0000Z

CVT = "compound value type"

If you're familiar with modeling in UML, it correlates to a UML Association Class. If you're not familiar with UML, it's basically a link + associated data. Rather than saying

CD --> ownedBy --> Phil

it says

CD --> ownedBy (fromDate, toDate) --> Phil.

In actual fact, at the most primitive level, it's just a set of nodes and arcs in the graph, but it's useful to think of this particular "clump" of nodes as a single object or link with attributes.

General Support: Barcode & Catalog Number

2009-12-24T23:22:13.0006Z

CVT = "compound value type"

If you're familiar with modeling in UML, it correlates to a UML Association Class. If you're not familiar with UML, it's basically a link + associated data. Rather than saying

CD --> ownedBy --> Phil

it says

CD --> ownedBy (fromDate, toDate) --> Phil.

In actual fact, at the most primitive level, it's just a set of nodes and arcs in the graph, but it's useful to think of this particular "clump" of nodes as a single object or link with attributes.

General Support: Barcode & Catalog Number

2009-12-24T20:46:16.0005Z

Yes Chris, I agree with you.

Nevertheless, I don't understand what a CVT means. Could you explain, please?

Your idea of ratings and review is very good but I don't know how to implement such 'personal' fields ...

Regards

Phil.B

General Support: Barcode & Catalog Number

2009-12-24T19:16:17.0013Z

I’m not going to say whether Freebase should be used for this. I think Freebase should be used for whatever the community successfully uses it. If I were to include personal ownership, I would have a release ownership type, a CVT that correlates a person with a release and things like purchase date. Otherwise, what does it mean to see that To Venus and Back was purchased on 1999-10-20, 2002-05-30, and 2005-07-16? To see that Jane purchased it on 1999-10-20, Bill purchased it on 2002-05-30, and Joe purchased it on 2005-07-16 is arguably a little more useful. Even more useful, users could associate ratings or reviews with their ownership, as well; it would be a way to provide some access control via whatever app is creating those ownership nodes.

General Support: Barcode & Catalog Number

2009-12-24T17:47:58.0006Z

Dear Chris,

I admit that my type 'Musical Release (Details)' is redundant. Actually this type is a kind of test and will probably be erased in a near future.

You've noticed that I've included a 'Puchases Date' field because I would like to enter individual ownership information but I realize that FreeBase may not be intended for this purpose. What would be the best way to handle this 'Purchase Date' information?

Regards

Phil.B

Muriel Brassler: Murial Brassler Alive and Well!

2009-12-24T17:08:48.0000Z

Muriel Brassler is not a fictional character. She is known as Muriel Emory, by marriage. Brassler was her maiden name. I have met her a few times, since I know one of her children. She is a very refined and elegante woman. She is presently living in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, at a Senior Citizens Apartment Complex. She used to live in Hemlock Farms Development in Hawley, PA. You can see a picture of her at the following website: http://www.hollowaypages.com/welles.htm

Hope this will clear up some misunderstanding.

General Support: Barcode & Catalog Number

2009-12-24T17:05:06.0000Z

I hadn’t noticed the Barcode type. That would be good. However, rather than linking your own Musical Release (details) to Barcode and then co-typing Musical Releases , I think it would be better to co-type Musical Releases as Barcoded Items. In general, your Musical Release (details) seems largely redundant. Original Release Date is present already. What does “Year of this Edition” gain? And “Purchase Date” confuses me; are you proposing to enter individual ownership information? The MusicBrainz ID is already present, as well, via a key, and AMG and Discogs links are best handled as keys into a namespace.

General Support: Barcode & Catalog Number

2009-12-24T16:54:31.0013Z

Hi Crism,

and thank you very much for pointing me to the location of the catalog number. Now I understand the goal of the 'Local Release' topic.

I notice that Barcode already exist in FreeBase : http://www.freebase.com/type/schema/base/barcode/barcode This type allow to link an item (i.e. a Musical Release) to a Barcode.

Once again, many thanks for helping me on this topic.

Regards

Phil.B

General Support: Barcode & Catalog Number

2009-12-24T14:53:19.0005Z

First, I misspoke above; we do have the catalog number, just not the barcode. Moreover, we have the date and place of Release Events. That really should be enough. See To Venus and Back for an example. I don’t believe we imported this information from MusicBrainz initially.

General Support: Barcode & Catalog Number

2009-12-24T14:19:05.0013Z

Yes you're right, the release date could be one way to distinguish 2 releases, but the how to differentiate a UK release and a French release which should be different but released a the same date ?

I think that, as it is implemented at MusicBrainz, the only way to differentiate 2 releases is to specify BarCode, Catalog Number and even Release Date.

Regards

Phil.B

Developer Support: Query Freebase with SPARQL

2009-12-23T12:20:21.0000Z

I would like to query Freebase from my application using a SPARQL query. What would be the best way to do that?

Kevin Rose: Primary Type

2009-12-23T07:51:19.0006Z

In my mind he's associated with Digg and, in general, Company Founder would trump TV Personality, but you're never going to keep everyone happy. Is Donald Trump a real estate developer, TV personality or serial groom? Probably depends on who you ask.

Kevin Rose: Primary Type

2009-12-23T01:37:47.0013Z

Hi,

The notable types algorithm is a work in progress, much of it depends on how well filled out the data is, what types are applied on a topic, and the interaction between types. The newest results that will be on production soon has Kevin Rose most notable as an "Audio Program Host." Is that more acceptable? Adding data to more notable types on a topic will help boost their notability.

Kevin Rose: Primary Type

2009-12-23T00:35:15.0013Z

It has his primary type as TV Personality which I think is flawed. How do we change the primary type that gets placed in the typeahead?

Football League Season: Include Sports League Season

2009-12-22T10:45:42.0013Z

I did the same for Handball League Season which I basically modelled after Football League Season a few months ago. Did not regret my choice so far: The type does not have a lot of properties itself, but it allowed me to add Sports Team Season Records to some handball teams. :)

U.S. Politician: Requested move to commons

2009-12-15T20:07:28.0013Z

This work was completed at the end of September. There are now keys in the /authority namespace for the IDs (although the old keys still work too). Other duplicate keys were merged in, so everything is in a single namespace referenced by the following keys:

/authority/us/gov/congress/bioguide
/authority/us/gov/loc/thomas_id
/base/uspolitician/thomas_id
/user/jamie/sunlight/bioguide_id
/authority/sunlight/bioguide_id