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Freebase Type Viewer: type viewer not available?

2008-09-30T14:32:33.0005Z

Hi,

can't seem to get any response at http://dev.mqlx.com/~darin/ftv/
the screen comes up F r e e b a s e T y e V i e w e r
but no searches fail, eg query book failed

thoughts?

History of a Day: Site does not work

2008-08-18T15:35:53.0060Z

Rob, I am copying this discussion over to Jack’s user account. The app is over a year old, and it is possible that changes to our data model or API since then have meant that the app requires some changes.

History of a Day: Site does not work

2008-08-17T21:00:18.0010Z

I entered a long explanation once but wasnt a registered member and my entry got wiped out. In short now, the site reverses the years entered and no results get returned.

Concierge: changed the link to a functioning version of this app

2008-08-09T00:33:40.0017Z

%s/retail_location/business_location/g on all the files seemed to do the trick

Archiportal: Links to related data

2008-08-07T00:27:46.0000Z

jcrosse, thanks for you interest. I maintain this app, now. I also uploaded all the Neutra houses into freebase (including dates and location information). If I understand what you are saying: the Kaufmann house is referenced in many books, magazines, newspapers, etc. and we could store this reference information in freebase as well. Right? I think that would be great.

The simple approach would be to have a flat document that's "attached" to the "topic" (in this case the Kaufman House) which just contains a list of references. As you said, it would be great to have that document "pop-up" when the user clicks on something in Archiportal.

A more sophisticated approach would be to have each reference be a structured item within freebase:

published work
page #
topic referenced

This would be more powerful in that one could perform a sophisticated database query like "show me all references to austrian architects from the New York Times" but it would be a lot more work, for sure.

What do you think? I'd be happy to help you with this.

Archiportal: Links to related data

2008-08-06T22:01:59.0005Z

I am an amateur architectural historian and find this site fascinating. I have created project databases and bibliographies for various architects and was wondering if this application could be used to link project specific material. As an example, Neutra was widely published and the Kaufmann House has over 400 items in its bibliography. Could a simple click on the Kaufmann or any other Neutra house automatically link up to its individual bibliography. This would be of great interest for researchers, historians, real estate sales people, and home owners. I envision eventually combining this with Zillow and architectural databases, bibliographies, building and safety records, and county assessors databases into something that could give you the complete history on any building in the country that you could access on your I-phone or car GPS while you are driving down the street. How do we make this happen? Are Zillowand/or Google already working on this?

Genealogy of Influence Viewer: Direct link

2008-06-23T13:32:50.0012Z

Good morning Skud,

just wanted to let you know that I finally followed your suggestion and enabled a way to directly link to a person to start with. For example

http://goosebumps4all.net/goi/setentry.php?person=Ludwig+Wittgenstein

for Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Thanks once more for the suggestion

martin

Using the Query Builder: Performing a bulk match of guids to wikipedia/en_ids

2008-06-16T16:18:18.0007Z

Thanks Willmoffat,

For anyone looking for a similar solution, here is the answer:

http://www.freebase.com/api/service/mqlread?queries={"q0":{"query":[{"/common/topic/article" : [{"guid" : null}],"key" : [{"namespace":"/wikipedia/en_id","value":"426702"}]}]}, "q1":{"query":[{"/common/topic/article" : [{"guid" : null}],"key" : [{"namespace":"/wikipedia/en_id","value":"38252"}]}]}}

You can simply keep adding more queries to your URL up to the limit of the URL string length. Technically...the URL definition does not require a length limit but most servers have a limit around 256-500 chars typically.

Cheers,
Biosopher

Using the Query Builder: Performing a bulk match of guids to wikipedia/en_ids

2008-06-16T11:29:32.0000Z

At the very least you can reduce network latency by using the queries parameter to execute multiple queries per http request. See the examples on the mqlread page.

Using the Query Builder: Performing a bulk match of guids to wikipedia/en_ids

2008-06-16T04:10:27.0012Z

I have one hundred wikipedia/en_ids that I want to get the corresponding Freebase guids for. I could do this one at a time but hoped there was a way to perform a bulk lookup

{

"/common/topic/article" : [

{

"guid" : null

}

"key" : [

{

"namespace" : "/wikipedia/en_id",

"value" : "426702"

}

"name" : null

}

Thanks,
Biosopher

Genealogy of Influence Viewer: Direct link

2008-06-14T16:55:52.0000Z

Ho,

thanks for the feedback and thanks for reminding me, that is of course what should be there since I am slowly leaving the beata phase ...

cheers

Genealogy of Influence Viewer: Direct link

2008-06-13T18:37:55.0005Z

Hey, is there any way to directly link to your Influence Viewer starting with someone other than Isaac Newton? Eg. http://example.com/blah?start=Someone+Else

Taught or Not?: great app

2008-06-12T13:22:01.0012Z

Good morning,

really a very nice idea and wondeful implementation.

congrats

maritn

Using the Query Builder: How to get article descriptions

2008-06-11T00:09:29.0000Z

See here for a similar question/response...Here's the help section involved with the Trans service, you want section 4.8. Fetching Content with trans

Using the Query Builder: How to get article descriptions

2008-06-10T22:54:15.0005Z

I expected this to be simple but couldn't find any info on the site/web.

How do I get the description for a specific article. E.g. this simple query gets the name for an article but how do I get the description as well?

{
"id" : "/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000023907a",
"name" : "San Quentin"
}

Thanks,
Biosopher

PullQuotes.org: Seriously cool!

2008-05-31T18:41:07.0000Z

This is actually just a preview release, and the real deal should be more useful for the average person, and less easy to ace.

For now, I've replaced the footer on all my apps, with the Freebase logo and license info.

Thanks for your feedback!

Genealogy of Influence Viewer: Feedback highly appreciated

2008-05-31T05:29:06.0005Z

Good morning.  First of all thanks to all who gave me feedback through the developers discussion list. As usual, feedback is of course the highly appreciated food for further “grow” of this application, so please feel invited to use this facility here for any kind of complaints, comments, ideas etc  thanks  martin

PullQuotes.org: Seriously cool!

2008-05-29T23:53:16.0005Z

James, this is seriously cool! I'm loving it. Kind of addictive too. Lovely work.

I was wondering, would you mind using the attribution template that's in our licensing policy, or something similar to it? The "Powered by Metaweb" logo you're using is outdated, and we prefer to be credited as "Freebase" these days (anything else just seems to cause confusion).

Freebase App Listing: Interchangeable Master Channels

2007-05-16T22:59:40.0011Z

Hello,
I'm looking for energetic developers willing to to use the Freebase API to contribute to an web-based innovation named "Interchangeable Master Channels" (IMCs).

Using a master brand called Infopod com [tm], IMCs consist of hundreds of product and service-specific dot com master channels, each one of which perfectly resolve at level two. (See USPTO.gov). The level two IMCs, each one of which is called a "pod", will allow end users to access indefinite numbers of level three "brand channels". The level three brand channels legally apply famous brand names to the namers of the channels which then identify the brand name products and services provided by individual merchants in local communities that are themselves defined by zip codes and postal codes around the world.

To my knowledge nobody, including Google, has ever been able to construct an architecture, as distinct from asearch algorithm, that allows end users to in effect "go inside" individual store front businesses, where the "go inside" part is a function of the storefront merchants themselves who over time provide the source copy that identifies (a) the brand names carried by the individual merchants; and (b) identify more or less real time access to local promotions offered by the merchants themselves.

IMCs are real! Hundreds of individual product and service master channels (the "pods") have been secured in the dot-com name space. Infopod is intended to be a business with real business fundamentals where local Infopod licensees are defined by their own postal codes and zip codes.

Infopod.com is an evolving design. It is intended to work with Freebase. It requires real innovators whose intellectual property, meaning the Infopod applications that they create, will be rewarded with local ownership options that nonetheless incorporate Creative Commons licensing.

Please send an email to derick@adpods.com with a heading labeled Infopod.com. I will return a series of PDF drawings that show precisely how the Infopod network uses hundreds of individual product and service IMCs that have been layered across the public Internet.

Thank you,
Derick Harris
Volcano, Hawaii