Freebase: Discussion about danm

Baseball Manager: Addition to schema

2008-10-11T16:33:16.0012Z

yes would like to use this too.

Thanks

Help Center: How to get started

2008-10-11T07:57:43.0012Z

Did you check out the Help page? In the bottom right is a screencast of API & sample apps. The links under "Developing Applications" should also be helpful.

Help Center: How to get started

2008-10-11T05:38:17.0017Z

Hello. I'm a senior Computer Science major and I'd like to use Freebase in my senior project. However, I've never worked with an API like this before and I'm finding it difficult to find examples for basic programs. How do I call the Freebase service in my code? Which languages can I use? What kind of format does the data have to be in before I can upload it, and does uploading it mean it appears on the Metaweb servers as if someone had added something through the website? It doesn't seem well-organized for the novice programmer, and I could really use some help.

Bug / Feature Request: Urgent Require - Fetching Content - http://www.freebase.com/api/trans/raw is not working.

2008-10-10T17:14:08.0012Z

Hi Hemang.

A recent data update seems to have caused the problem. We are working on resolving that as soon as possible. In the meanwhile if you are running this specific query for wikipedia articles only (i.e. not in a generic library or something of that sort), you can get the same content by using the /api/tran/blurb service with a very hign number for maxlength like so:

http://www.freebase.com/api/trans/blurb/%239202a8c04000641f8000000000acd66c?maxlength=3000

This will only work for wikipedia based topics. The reason being that we do not maintain the complete wikipedia article on our backend. However we do allow /api/trans/raw requests for wikipedia based topics, it simply returns the same content as the blurbs without truncating the content.

HTH

Bug / Feature Request: Urgent Require - Fetching Content - http://www.freebase.com/api/trans/raw is not working.

2008-10-10T16:56:36.0012Z

Thanks for bringing this up. The data format for blurbs changed, and a piece of the API was overlooked. It should be fixed soon; stay tuned for more information.

Bug / Feature Request: Deleting First Address

2008-10-10T15:40:34.0018Z

Sometimes a company in Freebase has two cities in the HQ address area when it really doesn't. If the second city is correct, and you delete the first address line, and then try to add information into the remaining line, the autofill fields won't work. You can type things in there, but the auto-suggest won't "open" and you can't link the field to an actual topic. You have to close out and then go back in.

In case that is confusing :) here's hopefully something that will help:

Company XYZ

Company/Headquarters "field"

Line 1 = Paris

Line 2 = London

Go in and delete Paris. Then try to fill in the other address fields for the London line. the fields that link to other topics won't work.

Bug / Feature Request: Urgent Require - Fetching Content - http://www.freebase.com/api/trans/raw is not working.

2008-10-10T11:21:13.0018Z

Hi,

Please any one help me on following issue.

It is unable to fetch content using following url:

Request:- http://www.freebase.com/api/trans/raw/%239202a8c04000641f8000000000acd66c

it give response like as shown below:

Response:-

{
  "status":"404 Not Found",
  "code":"/api/status/error/blobclient",
  "messages":[
    {
      "info":{
        "hostports":"blob03.p01.sjc1.metaweb.com:8120 blob01.p01.sjc1.metaweb.com:8120 blob02.p01.sjc1.metaweb.com:8120"
      },
      "message":"Could not find or replicate blob: static:mw-render/en/6c/9202a8c04000641f8000000000acd66c",
      "code":"/api/status/error/not_found"
    }
  ],
  "transaction_id":"cache;cache01.p01.sjc1:8101;2008-10-10T11:18:03Z;0011"
}

Thanks in advance...

Domains and Types: New Main Domain

2008-10-08T06:30:11.0012Z

Thanks Cheunger,

I was actually thinking of having the cycles only go as far as components. So they wouldn't be based on purpose - they would however have a genre on the model...

I'll do up a domain. Seems to be the way.

Thanks for the help.

james

Beth McIntyre: Who is Beth McIntyre??

2008-10-08T02:37:24.0017Z

She has green bangs and goes by BMac. Who is this wild woman?

danm: Football (soccer)

2008-10-07T21:28:51.0012Z

hi skud,

I'll get to your comments in the football domain but want to thank you for your comments (both here and in the relevant types).

I guess I wasn't really angling for an admin role (although would love to be paid to do this! :P) but mainly that I've been using Freebase for 1 1/2 years (only really adding data for the last week though in anger!) and have been active in my space (Scottish football) for 5 years and a computer programmer for 14 years.

I do want to prove myself as competent, and have started a "scottish football" domain and will start to define types in there that I think work for football, as you say.

At the same time, I don't want to annoy people by posting a load of messages to domains that didn't appear to being looked after, but you've answered that above.

danm: Football (soccer)

2008-10-07T21:11:51.0012Z

Hi degsy. I already replied to a bunch of your comments in the football domain but I wanted to clarify a few things here.

First up, danm and aseem were the admins on the football domain but they don't have much time to work on it. So cheunger and I have become admins there and we can now make changes to the schema.

Generally we don't appoint admins who don't have schema modelling experience on Freebase as it's easy to break things horribly if you're not careful. So if you'd like to become an admin in this domain the way to move towards that would be to work on some modeling in your own private user domain(s), and get the hang of how our schema editor works, and so on.

However, we could make you an "Expert" in the football domain, which allows you to make changes to documentation in the domain and recognises your knowledge in the area.

danm: Football (soccer)

2008-10-07T20:49:28.0012Z

Sounds good, I just need in... no word from the admin people yet...

danm: Football (soccer)

2008-10-07T18:46:36.0012Z

Currently, we don't have a generalized sports schema that other sports schemas can inherit from. We can start simple and grow into that if necessary. My suggestion would be to keep the football (soccer) stuff localized to the soccer domain.

Domains and Types: New Main Domain

2008-10-07T16:26:02.0012Z

Shoot, here's the link to the mailing lists.

Domains and Types: New Main Domain

2008-10-07T16:25:20.0012Z

Hi James,

You're correct - the best way to start is to model Cycling in a personal domain and post a request for review, or for harder data-modeling questions, you can join the data-modeling list (here).

My question back to you is, can you generically represent most or all bikes in a single cycling domain? It seems that mountain bikes have different specs that people are interested in (hard-tail, full suspension, type of suspension) vs road bikes (possibly materials and weight). You might want to think about domains centered around a specific biking style.

Domains and Types: New Main Domain

2008-10-07T05:54:55.0017Z

Howdy Guys,

Haven't been a member long, but I was planning on doing a main domain (not a personal one, but under Special Interests). It was like automotive, but for Cycles (bikes, trikes, tandems - etc).

There are a few personal domains around that are similar. Cyclocross (Mikeshwe) and Bicycles (Collord) - I guess this would be a best of both worlds, like the automotive one.

Am I just being silly? Should I start a personal domain first? I guess this is just to find out what I can actual do, thought it would be better to ask.

With Thanks

james

Help Center: GeoSearch API

2008-10-07T05:43:19.0012Z

ok... thanks for the response... ;) will do...

Sports Facility: Record attendance

2008-10-06T22:26:41.0017Z

Where would I store record attendance (with notes) for a sports facility?

This would be an integer, with notes (teams, date, competition) etc.

Happen to expand upon this but couldn't find an appropriate type to base it on...

Sports Facility: (non) Seated Capacity

2008-10-06T22:25:11.0006Z

What about standing capacity, or "combined" capacity?

Most football (soccer) stadiums still have standing areas (outside of the top leagues) and especially for historical data/stadia.

Help Center: GeoSearch API

2008-10-06T22:16:45.0012Z

Paul, the geosearch API is not yet deployed and the doc hasn’t been published yet. We’re glad you’re interested in it, but stay tuned to the blog and mailing lists for an announcement of when it’s ready for general testing and use. Thanks!

Sports Team: Multiple Arena/Stadium entries

2008-10-06T22:07:36.0018Z

How would you handle multiple arenas/stadiums with the current properties?

Some teams have moved and have previous stadiums, it would be good to be able to add these, along with dates.

danm: Football (soccer)

2008-10-06T21:08:44.0012Z

Thanks for the information.

I'm also a computer programmer (broad term I know!), so I'm interested in this from many angles one of which is how to get my data in here (for others) and then to use it from my own site to keep it fresh (from others).

I'll keep doing what I'm doing, but already finding duplicate types listed for some items, and trying not to become too frustrated, and to help out like you said.

Past team rosters are one thing, but also past competitions seem to be neglected (in my interested area) which I'm trying to think about how to correct.

One question, is it best to suggest specific types (football/soccer) ones from the existing types (which seem to be great for NBA, MLB, etc) or to suggest changes to the existing "sports" types?

Help Center: GeoSearch API

2008-10-06T20:59:55.0017Z

Hi, I'm very new to Freebase and have been looking around for documentation on the new GeoSearch API... does anyone know where I can find it? I haven't had much luck outside of the general mention of it on the blog etc. Thanks in advance...

danm: Football (soccer)

2008-10-06T20:56:58.0012Z

You're right - a good way to start contributing is by exactly what you've been doing. Start with a post to get the /soccer admins (and hopefully others) involved. There are some current schema issues that are outstanding, one of which happens to be how to represent past team rosters. Posting suggestions for changes will at least get the ball rolling. Additionally, you can broadcast harder schema related problems to a wider audience by joining the data-modeling list (here)

As for the suggestions from 2007, I don't know what the blockage is/was. It could be some combination of dropping the ball, lost interest, no follow-up, no time and/or no resolution. I'll have to research further what these suggestions were and queue them up, if appropriate. However, I hope this won't stop you from posting your suggestions; community input is invaluable, even if it's just commenting/critiquing other people's suggestion.

danm: Football (soccer)

2008-10-06T18:04:44.0012Z

I guess I have lots of recommendations for changes, but my problem was that some suggestions from 2007 hadn't been actioned, so didn't want to waste my time (or others) if nothing was going to come of them.

I have spent 5 years gathering data for my site, and have a good idea of what data/properties I have, so will continue to make suggestions where applicable, on the relevant type pages - I assume that's the correct way?

Would love to help out "officially" in some capacity, especially where football is concerned.

danm: Football (soccer)

2008-10-06T17:54:48.0012Z

Hi degsy,

I've forwarded your message onto the proper data loading folk, and hopefully they should be posting back to you shortly. It would be great to load some more football teams into freebase. I see yo've already started looking at the schemas in the /soccer domain; do you have other recommendations for changes?

danm: Football (soccer)

2008-10-06T16:47:07.0017Z

Are there any large updates planned for football (soccer) that I can help with?

I run a football archive site at http://scottishfootballarchive.co.uk and would love for the data to be under freebase and then re-usable for the rest of the web.

Not sure where to start, so looking for pointers...