Contributing Information

Contributing Information: NNDB Links for People

2008-09-05T21:34:58.0012Z

Thanks Brian. The exact count should be 19,619 writes to the API with 2 properties being updated each time.

Contributing Information: NNDB Links for People

2008-09-05T17:33:09.0000Z

I believe the normal limit is 10,000 writes. I'll see if I can get your limit increased.

Contributing Information: NNDB Links for People

2008-09-05T03:28:16.0012Z

I've uploaded a new version of the data to the sandbox. If no one has any objections, I'll add it to the main site.

Is there a limit on how many writes I can do on the main site? Will I be able to make 19,000 writes in a day?

Contributing Information: NNDB Links for People

2008-08-21T03:06:20.0012Z

Looks like everything is working fine now in the new release. Thanks for fixing this.

Contributing Information: Wot? No formatting of Descriptions?

2008-08-19T19:23:19.0012Z

Thanks for the kind words. I think Wikis and Google will certainly continue to have their place! As far as WYSIWYG goes, we're probably going to explore different style views for topics in Freebase - some might allow for rich formatting of articles while others will focus more on the structured data - the question of what to show in the default Freebase topic view may become less critical as application developers create new interfaces into it.

Our data team has already begun to develop clever tools for extracting structure out of articles -- it certainly would be interesting to see if applying that to our own articles might bear useful results in the future.

Contributing Information: Wot? No formatting of Descriptions?

2008-08-17T09:12:16.0012Z

Dan, I think you guys have created an incredible system here. Allowing for more sophisticated formatting would make the wiki obsolete (as well as most of Google as we know it). The way I see it, wether you like it or not, you guys have created a system that has the potential to become the structured repository of all human knowledge. Not only I think you will have to re-enable the WYSIWYG, but you will probably have to make it smart, so that it can extract from the rich format that a user types, as much information as possible to populate links and other properties. Thoughts?

Contributing Information: NNDB Links for People

2008-08-15T18:01:15.0012Z

Ok, thanks guys. I'll watch for CLI-4538 in the release notes.

Contributing Information: NNDB Links for People

2008-08-15T16:35:59.0012Z

This sounds like simply a bug - you're right that the NYTimes links got added separately, and they'll probably need to be fixed. It may be too late to get a fix in for next week's release, but I'll try. For my and other's reference, this is CLI-4538 in our bug system.

Contributing Information: NNDB Links for People

2008-08-15T16:34:26.0012Z

Ah, yes, the char escaping with keys and URI templates... I am in the process of converting the NYT keys to use URI templating, and I also ran into that problem. There's a bug filed to have the UI behave properly when it encounters escaped URLs - I'll post back when there's a status update to this.

Toby (tsegaran) actually added a key, and created a discrete weblink (it's not using URI templating). When I implement the URI templating, I'll be removing the superfluous weblink.

BTW, good work!

Contributing Information: NNDB Links for People

2008-08-15T15:29:03.0012Z

Ok, I've created the namespace, I've set up the enumeration property on the NNDB Person type and I've attached a URI template to that property.

Then I added a sample key to the Paul Newman topic and the NNDB link shows up as expected. Unfortunately, the ID has a forward slash in it which gets escaped and breaks the link. I went back to the Foreign Key Property and explicitly disabled URI encoding but that hasn't fixed it. Any ideas on how to handle this?

Coincidentally, tsegaran added a foreign key to a NYT page on the same Paul Newman topic and his key also contains forward slashes but he seems to have entered the weblink seperately without using a URI template.

Contributing Information: Citation Management

2008-08-14T15:19:33.0013Z

This is a slightly different question. Once we have patent data, we can export it in proper citation format, but getting the structured data is the challenge. I replied about import in response to your previous post in Domains & Types.

Contributing Information: Citation Management

2008-08-14T13:09:53.0000Z

Patents have similar citation nature.

Is is possible to incorporate USPTO data in freebase?

Thank you

Contributing Information: NNDB Links for People

2008-08-11T16:34:01.0000Z

Oh, yeah! It’s totally done and I forgot to come back here.

First, I made namespaces (/authority/imdb/film, name, character). Then I made properties that enumerate those namespaces and attached URI templates to them.

Check out the IMDb profile property on film. It expects Enumeration as its type. Then you have to get a little fancy and switch to the admin view. Set the Enumeration property of the property to the expected namespace. Then co-type the property as a Foreign key property and set a URI template. Set its type to URI Template and fill in both the canonical template (used to generate and recognize URIs) and the other templates (used only for recognition).

The schema UI will support this at some point… just not yet, as it’s kind of a power-user thing.

Contributing Information: NNDB Links for People

2008-08-11T05:35:53.0012Z

Have you made any progress on this? I've looked at the documentation on enumerations but I can't figure out how to apply it to my model.

Contributing Information: Link airports as containedby for apropriate locations

2008-06-03T16:16:20.0007Z

FYI - We are trying to get our hands on some country/airport data also, so if licensing is compatible, we may be able to add country containment to a large percentage of airport topics, and perhaps and new ones!

Contributing Information: Link airports as containedby for apropriate locations

2008-06-02T23:49:51.0007Z

You have a point, I think there is no airport that is actually in the city they serve, it would be just outside the city. But nobody says thei're flying to schiphol rijk or whatever (unknown small) town that is closest to the airport or containing the airport.

I guess thats why serves is there. In case of Schiphol, the administrative division Amsterdam is responsible for Schiphol.

I will only add the countries containing the airport.

Contributing Information: Link airports as containedby for apropriate locations

2008-06-02T17:39:24.0007Z

Is Schiphol actually contained by Amsterdam? I am not that familiar with Dutch location containment, but it seems like Schiphol is contained by the municipality of Haarlemmermeer and possibly contained by the city Schiphol-Rijk.

Are you just adding containment by country, or containment by administrative division also? If it is also the latter, there could also be the situation where an airport may serve one location, but be contained by a different administrative division. The example I'm thinking of is Newark Airport is contained by New Jersey, but serves New York City.

Contributing Information: Link airports as containedby for apropriate locations

2008-06-01T13:08:42.0005Z

Airport is co typed as location so I would like to set airport as the containedby value for the correct locations.

For example Amsterdam Schiphol should be contained by Amsterdam and Netherlands.

Got some script and run it on the sandbox, it will get the airports serves location and add the airport as contains value for the serves location and all locations that contain the serves.

Like Amsterdam Schiphol serves Amsterdam so schiphol is added as a value contains for amsterdam, amsterdam is contained by netherlands so schiphol is added as contains value for netherlands.

Contributing Information: Wot? No formatting of Descriptions?

2008-05-24T15:01:27.0000Z

Thanks for the response, Dan, and I'm glad to hear that you will consider re-enabling formatting if there is widespread support for it - I suspect there is, even if few people actually voice it.

As regards hyperlinks, I am not convinced by the specific argument that this decision should be driven by people wishing to query all the URLs linking from a topic. A wiki this may not be; but there will be many instances when people reading a Description would appreciate a link to some relevant site in the context of that particular part of the Description. This will - I hazard to guess - happen far more frequently than people wanting to find "all the URLs linking from a topic".

Contributing Information: Wot? No formatting of Descriptions?

2008-05-23T23:05:57.0011Z

Generally the idea is not to encourage writing long articles with complex formatting since most of the data should be captured in structured properties. For instance, hyperlinks would ideally be added to the weblinks section as opposed to embedded in the description - in case someone wants to query for all the URLs linking from a topic. There might not be much harm in some other formatting like bullets, bold, italic, etc... but we're also trying to make it clear in the UI that this is a different animal than a Wiki.

That all said, we'll likely re-enable WYSIWYG for some types in the system, and if there is widespread support for re-enabling the feature, we can certainly add it in the future.

Contributing Information: Wot? No formatting of Descriptions?

2008-05-23T20:53:59.0012Z

I've just returned to Freebase after a few months absence. I've got to say that I think the removal of WYSIWYG editing for descriptions is a big mistake.

You state "WYSIWYG editing of rich text isn't supported at this time in the standard topic view in order to encourage topic editors to focus on writing brief descriptions suitable for viewing as a search result. The only formatting supported is the carriage return. More extensive information should be captured in property values, not in descriptive text."

Formatting is not the same as abstracting out information into Properties. What harm is there in a little helpful formatting (e.g. headings to break up the text into meaningful chunks?). Or hyperlinks? Or bullet points? This seems a case of a reasonable principle carried to an unreasonable extreme.

If I'm allowed to format this post, why not a Description?

Contributing Information: Postsecondary Schools

2008-05-07T23:35:03.0008Z

The types you should be looking at are /education/institution and /education/university. Between them, they should have all the properties for post-secondary schools. (Educational Institution has properties that are common to schools of all levels.)

If there is data in your dataset that you want to load,and which doesn't match any existing properties, we can talk about adding new properties. The first place to start, though, would be to create a type in your private domain to hold those properties so you can test them out and so that people can review them before adding them to the types in the education domain.

This looks like a great dataset. Feel free to keep posting questions while you work on it.

Contributing Information: Postsecondary Schools

2008-05-06T01:08:04.0005Z

I'd like to get the list of all postsecondary schools loaded.

The nasty format is here: http://www.ed.gov/offices/OSFAP/PEPS/dataextracts.html and I can get it into a better format but the current definition of "school" in freebase leaves a lot to be desired.

What should I do?

Contributing Information: Food Recipes

2008-04-30T20:50:21.0007Z

Hi Sebastian,

User skud was looking for reviewers on her food domain. I would think that would be a good start for then developing a type for recipes where it could use those types. Perhaps you may want to collaborate with other users on creating a recipe type? You could start a discussion on the data-modeling list (if you're not part of the list, you can join here).

Contributing Information: Food Recipes

2008-04-30T16:51:37.0000Z

Link is broken or leads to nothing?! is there any solution adding recipes in freebase?

sebastian

Contributing Information: 'Similar artists' data for musical artists

2008-04-04T07:33:48.0000Z

Ugh, right, I forgot to check the NonCommercial part. Never mind...

Contributing Information: 'Similar artists' data for musical artists

2008-04-03T23:02:03.0007Z

Thanks, Jeroen. First, please be sure that the data can be contributed legally; we did not collect the artist similarity information from MusicBrainz, for instance, because it is licensed CreativeCommons-Non-Commercial, and as a commercial enterprise, we can’t legally use that data.

If you have permission to load that data, then this sounds like a great idea! You could also add the last.fm page as a Web link. For lookup, since last.fm and Freebase both use MusicBrainz keys, a key is probably not needed

Contributing Information: 'Similar artists' data for musical artists

2008-04-03T11:02:33.0005Z

Hi there,

I have a data set with for about 38,000 artists with a MusicBrainz ID a list of the artists that are most related to it according to last.fm.
I have about 60,000 more without a MusicBrainz ID and I can obviously retrieve more data through the last.fm webservices.

My plan is to add all artists with a MusicBrainz ID that are more than 80% similar to an artist (about two or three artists, usually) as a 'similar artist' relation. Is that ok?

As an example, I added links for about 100 artists to the sandbox. I do my lookups based on the MusicBrainz ID, and do not create new artists. See: Édith Piaf

Any comments? Should I somehow link the artists to their last.fm page after processing? Add their last.fm urlname as a key, perhaps?

Thanks,

- Jeroen

Contributing Information: Currency exchange rate

2008-02-22T09:01:42.0000Z

I've subscribed to developers now. Thanks for the detyping tip. I de-typed all the entries and imported 3 datasets (1971-1989, 1990-1999, 2000-2008) for USD-AUD into sandbox and everything looks ok. I did get a 400 error about midway into doing 1971-1989 but I just restarted it from the last entry that was added and it worked out.

Contributing Information: Currency exchange rate

2008-02-20T01:00:31.0007Z

There's no quick way to delete anything. You could de-type them, though, which would get them out of the way of your scripts, at least. Questions about scripts, MQL, and the API can be posted to the Freebase developers' list, also, where you'll probably get a quicker response than the 17 hours it took for this (sorry! my RSS reader lost this message for some reason): http://lists.freebase.com/mailman/listinfo/developers.

Contributing Information: Currency exchange rate

2008-02-19T07:59:52.0000Z

I attempted an import on sandbox today.. Seems to have not worked out so well. After doing a lot of reformating on the date to get it into a form that the API would accept, I ended up getting a 503 every time I tried to do the import. I didn't seem to see anything on sandbox's web interface so I kept trying. Much later I looked and there were records, but It didn't look like they'd all been imported, so I made my import script do the imports in 100 unit segments, and started to get a 2 entries match error, so I looked that up and discovered that I had duplicate records even though I'd use unless_exists in my create clause! I'm not exactly sure what to do at this point, is there a way to delete all the records in a type on sandbox?

Contributing Information: Currency exchange rate

2008-02-18T23:18:31.0007Z

I think that because the source and target are explicitly modeled there is no need to add the reciprocal rates since an application can just reverse them.

Contributing Information: Currency exchange rate

2008-02-18T20:59:29.0000Z

I've moved "exchange rate" to the finance domain. This change will be copied to sandbox tonight, so you will be able to try our your import there. I'm not sure about the reciprocal exchange rates, but I'll ask around.

Contributing Information: Currency exchange rate

2008-02-15T05:38:57.0007Z

I looked at the currency pages and they look fine, and the schema looks fine, so I'm going to assume it was connected correctly. I've been trying to figure out if we want to do reciprocal exchange rates, since with AUD/USD I can calculate USD/AUD easily, would it be a good idea to add both records, or to just let people do the calculations themselves?

Contributing Information: Currency exchange rate

2008-02-15T00:46:43.0007Z

I've connected "exchange rate" to the currency type; it was more complicated to do than I expected, so please take a look at the types and let me know whether I did it correctly. If it's set up correctly, we can move the "exchange rate" type to the finance domain.

Contributing Information: Currency exchange rate

2008-02-14T21:29:45.0007Z

That was what I originally wanted to do, but realized I obviously couldn't. Having made exchanged currency though, I'm not 100% sure that it's not a better option now. The basic idea is that not all currencies are exchanged. On the other hand, I think just having a blank target/source field may be enough to let you know it's not exchanged :)

Contributing Information: Currency exchange rate

2008-02-14T18:36:23.0007Z

You've generated a lot of interest here over your dataset, and we'd like to work with you to put your types in the top-level /finance domain. What we probably would do is hook the "exchange rate" type to the existing "currency" type, rather than keeping the "exchanged currency" type. What do you think?

Contributing Information: Currency exchange rate

2008-02-14T01:32:36.0000Z

Right now, I've got USD-AUD from 1990 to 1999, which is 2561 records. I'm getting the data from: http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h10/Hist/default1999.htm I have a script ready to go to do the import of the AUD-USD dataset, and afterwards I'd like to import more recent data, and then start to import other currencies from the reserve banks datasets.

Contributing Information: How can I determine the veracity of data

2008-02-11T18:50:08.0000Z

Roger, you can look at the “Page History” link for any topic and see when and by whom assertions about a topic were added or removed. For example, your user history. We don’t currently have a model for other users to agree with an assertion, however.

Contributing Information: How can I determine the veracity of data

2008-02-10T20:29:50.0012Z

I was looking at an entry in which 2 people were listed as "Influencers of this person". How can I tell how it got there and if anyone else agrees with this?

BTW, I am new to this DB, so if this is answered somewhere, just leave a pointer to the answer. Thanks.

Contributing Information: Types and Data

2008-01-28T21:55:47.0007Z

Addendum: the music modeling interest group is here.

Contributing Information: Types and Data

2008-01-28T21:55:18.0007Z

Bemvindo, Paulo. We have a lot of data about recorded music, but we do not have a lot of information about music videos, nor have we done a lot of modeling of what music video data would look like. If you want to help out, you could prototype music videos in your personal domain, or join the music modeling interest group and comment there. Thanks in advance for any suggestions you may have.

Contributing Information: Types and Data

2008-01-26T13:19:05.0005Z

I am having problems to do some research on Freebase, and my doubt is if this is cause I'm not using it the way it was designed for, or it just don't have enough data yet.

For example, I was trying to search by Nightwish Music Videos from every albums. I can search by Nightwish and then filter their albums, what works fine, but there's not a type for 'Music Videos', also, if I filter by 'film' and 'media' I get just some movies that has Nightwish songs.

Contributing Information: Citation Management

2007-12-07T21:58:43.0007Z

The EndNote schema can be downloaded here: http://www.endnote.com/support/helpdocs/RSXML.zip

Contributing Information: Citation Management

2007-12-07T00:51:53.0000Z

I agree that this would be an excellent feature. I don't think the publishing domain schemata are quite up to handling this type of data yet, but we are working on improving them now, particularly with better support for scientific and academic journals, papers, etc. Once the schemata are in place, it should be possible for someone to create an application to import bibliographic data from a standard format or formats. I can't promise that Freebase itself will supply this kind of application any time soon (although we are working on some user-facing import tools), but it will certainly be possible through our API.

Contributing Information: Citation Management

2007-12-06T23:40:32.0005Z

I would like to upload my EndNote library (see http://www.freebase.com/view/reference_management_software) so that I can support my entries in Freebase via citations. In a perfect world, I would be able to synch (or in a less perfect world, import/export) a Refworks/EndNote/Procite library into Freebase. Is this an existing or planned capability? Most journal clearinghouses provide the option of exporting article metadata to a reference management software. It would be really, really nice if Freebase could accept these export files and reference management libraries.

Contributing Information: Food Recipes

2007-08-23T18:12:13.0007Z

Hi Kiril-

There was some discussion in the "Food" domain awhile back about adding recipes. You might want to post something there and see if anyone else is starting to work on it. You can read that discussion here.

Contributing Information: Food Recipes

2007-08-23T01:46:44.0012Z

Hello, I have found that there are a lot of recipes available in the public domain as mealmaster format or many times as RML (recipe xml files). I have wrote a script to convert those formats and insert them in my sql database. The thing is that I am sure this is a very valuable information for a freebase and it will also help me write my application without needed to store myself all the recipes.

The list of recipes I am talking about is here: http://dsquirrel.tripod.com/recipeml/indexrecipes2.html
Please, take a look at on of the files and tell me if this is valuable information for Freebase and I will start experimenting in sandbox.freebase.com and see how the data will be stored. Also I did not see a category for recipes here on freebase and I am thinking if you wanted to include it at a later stage or what?

Thanks,
Kiril