danny

Data Modeling Guide: Duplicate values

2008-08-26T13:15:38.0012Z

There is not, because the way you’ve structured your query, you are asking for the “acting gigs,” not the actors. It appears that Tambor did play two different roles on Arrested Development, and so two gigs are appropriate there. If you ask for the character in the cast, this will be more obvious.

Data Modeling Guide: Duplicate values

2008-08-26T07:51:14.0005Z

Hi,

I send this query:

[
{
    "name" : null,
    "original_network" : [
      {
        "network" : null
      }
    ],
    "regular_cast" : [
      {
        "actor" : null
      }
    ],
    "type" : "/tv/tv_program"
}
]

and i get an actor "Jefferey Tambor" that appear twice in "Arrested Development".

Is there anyway to ignore from duplicate values?

Tx All.

Data Modeling Guide: New data

2008-08-19T05:12:35.0012Z

Hi,

Thanks a lot for your help.

Data Modeling Guide: Non-events

2008-08-16T04:21:31.0000Z

cool, thanks for the feedback. I will definitely bring this up on the list.

Data Modeling Guide: Non-events

2008-08-15T15:58:39.0012Z

Ditto what Shawn said; a new type seems the best way to handle this. I would also strongly recommend bringing up this discussion on the data-modeling mailing list.

Data Modeling Guide: Non-events

2008-08-15T15:52:53.0012Z

That's a good point. Just because an event doesn't appear in Freebase doesn't mean you can assume that it didn't occur.

I would model this by co-typing the 1994 World Series topic with a Canceled Event type and then maybe add a property to say why it was canceled.

Data Modeling Guide: Non-events

2008-08-15T15:39:56.0007Z

I've been slowly adding the historical results of baseball's world series, and in thinking about the 1994 world series, I hit upon a bit of a hurdle: this world series didn't occur.

As a piece of information, this fact seems relevant to me. However, in terms of integrating the "non-event" into the site, it really doesn't fit at all with the structure of all the other world series results, namely, "winner, loser, score", etc.

I guess that my question, then, is how is one to deal with non-events that are nevertheless relevant precisely because of their exceptionalism? The expectation of a world series in 1994, given the pattern set both before and after the cancelled season, separates this instance from all others in its class. However, since the actual event never occurred, I’m not sure if representing it in the current schema is either (i) possible or (ii) desirable.

There are other examples of this kind of expected-but-never-occurred event, notably in sports, and I was wondering if there are any ideas/suggestions on how to represent this type of information.

Thanks

Data Modeling Guide: New data

2008-08-07T17:19:48.0012Z

To be precise, Bryan’s query will find things that were created this month, which are also of type /film/film. To find new assertions, you have to get a little more complicated.

[
{
    "id" : null,
    "type" : {
      "id" : "/film/film",
      "link" : {
        "timestamp>" : "2008-08"
      }
    }
}
]

will find things who have had their film type asserted this month.

[
{
    "id" : null,
    "type" : [
      {
        "id" : null,
        "link" : {
          "timestamp>" : "2008-08"
        }
      }
    ]
}
]

will find things that have had new types added this month. In general, for any property assertion, you can ask about the timestamp on the link.

Data Modeling Guide: New data

2008-08-07T16:29:24.0012Z

You can query against the timestamp, something along the lines of:

[
{
    "name" : null,
    "timestamp" : null,
    "timestamp>" : "2008-08",
    "type" : "/film/film"
}
]

This returns films that were added this month.

Data Modeling Guide: New data

2008-08-07T04:30:18.0017Z

Hi,

How can i get the data that were added from specific date (mqlread)

Tx.

Data Modeling Guide: Linking Cities to Countries

2008-08-06T22:13:31.0016Z

In your MQL query, you can ask for the types of the topics in the containment - something like:

{"id":"/en/united_states", "contains":[{"id":null, "type":[]}], "type":"/location/location"}

Data Modeling Guide: Linking Cities to Countries

2008-08-06T19:02:22.0012Z

When returned in the query, is there any way to discern which is the top level? i.e. is there any order to the way the data is returned?

Data Modeling Guide: Linking Cities to Countries

2008-08-06T17:48:36.0018Z

In some ideal data-world, all administrative divisions for all countries would be entered, with the proper contains/contained by nesting, so that you would only need to add a city's immediate administrative division to assert that it was also in the country that contains the division (or that contains the division that contains the division, etc.). But since we don't (yet) live in such a world, go ahead and use the "contains/contained by" properties.

Data Modeling Guide: Linking Cities to Countries

2008-08-06T17:13:03.0017Z

What is the most appropriate way to link a city to the country in which it is located? I gather that contained by is for the level directly above it and that administrative division is reserved for states, counties, provinces, etc.

Spaceflight: Space program sponsor

2008-07-28T21:15:05.0045Z

Right then. I'll fix it.

Spaceflight: Space program sponsor

2008-07-28T20:51:19.0012Z

No. Probably just an oversight.

Spaceflight: Space program sponsor

2008-07-28T17:49:48.0017Z

Is there any reason that the incoming property from Space Program shouldn't be reciprocated on the Space Program Sponsor type?

Spaceflight: Space Program

2008-07-28T13:57:47.0005Z

Ok. I had seen it both ways, I think. Thanks.

Spaceflight: Space Program

2008-07-27T16:22:58.0012Z

It was intended to be Apollo, Gemini, etc.

Spaceflight: Space Program

2008-07-25T22:07:07.0017Z

What does the type Space Program refer to? Is NASA appropriate there, or is Apollo?

Data Modeling Guide: How can I set "linked in as" for types that I generate

2008-07-08T18:58:07.0028Z

It should be nigh-instantaneous. If you don't see one you expect to see, try refreshing the cache (the F8 key will add a little menu to the bottom of the page -- click the "refresh page" link, then refresh your browser). There is also a bug with suggested properties sometimes not showing up which I believe will be fixed in the next release.

Data Modeling Guide: How can I set "linked in as" for types that I generate

2008-07-08T02:42:31.0012Z

That's actually a good way of explaining reciprocal properties.

Do you know how much lag time to expect from the time a property is put up, to when the suggested property appears on the other type?

Spaceflight: Spacecraft-Type?

2008-06-20T19:22:07.0000Z

Late to the party, but I'm hoping someone still reads this. Could I suggest adding some types to "Spacecraft"? Ideally these would include missions flown, date built, and date destroyed/decommissioned/lost. Thanks!

Data Modeling Guide: So Started in on Populations In time

2008-05-23T16:20:56.0000Z

Hip thanks for the heads up....

Data Modeling Guide: So Started in on Populations In time

2008-05-23T03:27:16.0007Z

Hi wellstone,

FYI - most locations include the type statistical region which has a property for population (ECT of dated integer). If you look at the earth, the value for 2007 has already been inputted.

Data Modeling Guide: So Started in on Populations In time

2008-05-23T02:02:21.0012Z

So I'm Intrested in seeing populations numbers in time having a good place to exsist... I started with world pop figured that was simple then I thought it should be based on localized data meaning country (county zip) or what ever now I have a headache what do you all think ( i got worried about changing borders time zones bla bla)... oh and this is kinda intresting as a ref/data sourse possible (I just wrote William) ( http://gecon.yale.edu/data.php )

Wellstone

http://www.freebase.com/tools/schema/user/wellstone/default_domain/world_population_by_time

(don't know if/ when that is view able)

Spaceflight: refactoring

2008-05-22T21:30:42.0007Z

Heh. I am admin in this group so I can move them myself if people approve. Maybe over weekend.

Anyone else wants to enter some data? FOr now I am slowly typing data from here:

http://www.k204.ru/books/Aviadvigatel.pdf

as owner of astronautix.com unfortunately is not willing to share his data. Well, he probably has reasons.

Spaceflight: refactoring

2008-05-22T17:54:56.0000Z

Sounds like you need some help from the data architecture group. Are these the only 4 types you'd like moved?

Spaceflight: refactoring

2008-05-18T21:52:50.0000Z

I like rocket enngine, rocket stage, rocket famliy, and rocket engine family. Unless we here something surprising from NASA, I think we should put these into the Spaceflight domain.

Spaceflight: refactoring

2008-05-18T16:08:18.0000Z

Great! Will do. We are waiting to hear back from some people at NASA who have been developing metadata schema so we can try to incorporate those too. After several forwarded emails we last heard that "NASA has done quite a lot of work in this area", but my primary contact is traveling for a couple weeks so we don't yet know what that work was.

Spaceflight: refactoring

2008-05-18T02:20:31.0000Z

Danny, pls look at some my space related types in http://freebase.com/view/user/hedgehog/default_domain

Data Modeling Guide: How can I set "linked in as" for types that I generate

2008-05-09T17:56:06.0007Z

There may be something I am missing: it looks like you’ve answered your own question! (“If you want to change that name, and you have the necessary permissions, you can change it on that other type.”) I’ll try to break it down, though.

When looking at the schema for a type, you can only edit the properties on that type. The “linked in as” is the name of the reciprocal property on some other type, so you can’t edit that directly; you must visit the other type to change it.

To create a “linked in as,” a reciprocal property, is very simple. Once you have a property from one type to another, go visit the schema for that other type. At the bottom of the schema editor, you will see “Suggested Properties”; these are un-reciprocated incoming properties from other types. If you edit the name of one of those, you have not only picked up a new property with its “linked in as” already set, you have now changed the “linked in as” on the other type.

Please note that the schema editor is being redesigned, so the details of this process (though not the fundamental concepts) may change.

Now, if you don’t have the rights to edit the other type, you’re out of luck. Let’s say you make a private type called Hater with a property called “People Hated” that expects Person. Unless you’re an administrator of the People domain, you can’t reciprocate that property as “Hated By.” And that’s just as well; we don’t want everyone on the system to be able to edit all the types, which is why we have the administrator system in place. If you think that known by whom a person is hated is critical information to the Freebase community, you can ask the People administrators to reciprocate the property, or even to promote your Hater type into their domain.

Does that help?

Data Modeling Guide: How can I set "linked in as" for types that I generate

2008-05-09T05:42:58.0005Z

Cannot see how I can set "linked in as" for types that I generate. Is there something that I am missing?

I'm reading this a bit differently - the (links in as...) label appears in Type Editor for any properties that link from another type. For instance, on the type 'film' there is a property called 'Directed by' which has an expected type 'Director' which links in as 'Films directed'. 'Films directed' is the display name of the property on the other type - so if you want to change that name, and you have the necessary permissions, you can change it on that other type.

Thanks for your reply

Spaceflight: refactoring

2008-04-21T19:10:29.0012Z

Spaceflight needs some refactoring in light of what we have learned about data modeling since this early experiment. In hope of getting some help on this, I would like to ask spatialed to join as an admin and help fix satellite as discussed.

Now is a good time to speak up if you are depending on something no being changed.

Spaceflight: Spacecraft-Type?

2007-09-06T01:07:31.0000Z

Done. Let me know what properties you think would make sense. I think this might overlap a bit with satellite, or it could be that spacecraft are a disjoint set. What do people think?

Spaceflight: Spacecraft-Type?

2007-09-01T20:34:47.0005Z

I suggest you add the type "Spacecraft".

danny: President of Germany

2007-07-26T05:12:55.0004Z

Hi Danny, I added the type "President of Germany" and some past presidents within. Now it's called a "rainer's types". I understand, that I need your help to make it a regular type!? Cheers, Rainer

danny: Prescription Drugs

2007-07-10T03:24:00.0007Z

That sounds like an offer we should take you up on. I will ask Sarah Milstein to contact you about how to follow up.

danny: Prescription Drugs

2007-07-10T01:10:48.0012Z

Hi Danny,

In the medicines pages, I notice you have url fields to link to emedicine.com etc.

Can you add the same default to the drugs pages? I am the COO of Drugs.com. You'll notice that we are an advertiser supported free information site and we'd be happy to provide specific data on each drug etc from our database of over 24,000 prescription drugs. We are also the first to carry content on not yet approved and newly approved drugs which far exceeds the wikipedia content you currently have.

Let me know what you think.

danny: Regarding Anatomy and Medicine

2007-06-26T14:42:07.0006Z

Yes, anatomy should eventually be its own domain. But for now we are jsut putting it medicine.

danny: Regarding Anatomy and Medicine

2007-06-20T09:58:45.0011Z

Hi Danny,
I was looking at the medicine type and wondering if some of the contained types shouldn't actually be in Biology, maybe biology / anatomy. I have just joined, so I might have missed some good reason.
Regards
Andy.