lukeschubert

Domains and Types: Broader / narrower?

2008-09-02T22:04:48.0000Z

That seems pretty reasonable to me, so I added the two properties to the Field of Study type.

Domains and Types: Journal article type

2008-09-02T15:04:24.0017Z

There doesn't appear to be a type for journal article. There is journal issue, but this doesn't quite cover it. It would be very useful for academic research to have a journal article type which would be for a specific journal article.

Domains and Types: Broader / narrower?

2008-09-02T00:09:20.0005Z

Just posting this to crosspost this disscussion.

Domains and Types: Broader / narrower?

2008-09-02T00:06:29.0012Z

I agree. Currently, for example, philosophy, ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics are all simply "feilds of study". That's fine as far as it goes, but within the philosophy feild of study type we should be able to specify that ethics, epistemolgoy and metaphysics are subdisciplines. I'm not sure what a good name for the reciprocal property of "super-discipline" would be. Perhaps something like "is a subdiscipline of"

Domains and Types: Philosophy

2008-09-01T23:54:26.0012Z

I don't think it would be terribly useful to have a type for "a philosophy". There isn't really such a thing a philosophy, only various collections philosophical ideas. I would recommend creating types for philosophy subtopics such as epistemology, metaphysics, phil of language, ethics, etc. There could also be types for schools of thought such as utilitarianism, existentialism, functionalism (to name a very random assortment from different areas of philosophy).

Organism Classification: Conservation Status

2008-08-26T21:57:06.0012Z

IUCN Red List http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/search-basic

This site has a lots of useful info.

Government: Military Experience of Presidents

2008-08-25T19:02:58.0012Z

Very nice! But please bear in mind that a "military combatant" is an armed force, not a person. Otherwise we end up with an assertion that Zachary Taylor was in command of himself at the Battle of Lake Okeechobee -- always a quality you look for in a commander, of course, but not quite what the schema was meant to represent. :)

Government: Government Office or Title

2008-08-25T18:26:09.0012Z

OK, that's fine. I just wanted to make sure we wanted this by design, and it wasn't an oversight. Thanks

Government: Military Experience of Presidents

2008-08-25T07:44:02.0000Z

Finally, this should work:

http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000008ffcc10

Government: Military Experience of Presidents

2008-08-25T07:37:14.0000Z

Sorry, that link got screwed up. Hopefully this one works:

Filter Table View

Government: Military Experience of Presidents

2008-08-25T07:30:49.0012Z

As a good starting place to explore this information, you should take a look at the Filter Table View. Here's a view that shows all U.S. Presidents who served in the Army as Brigadiers General

To do more detailed searches to do things like aggregate the number of presidents who have served in each branch of the armed services you may want to look into MQL, the Metaweb Query Language.

Hope this gives you a good start.

Government: Military Experience of Presidents

2008-08-25T02:13:18.0018Z

With all the discussion about the military experience of presidential candidates, it would be valid and useful to be able to conduct a search on the rank, conflict, and length of service for presidents.

Government: Government Office or Title

2008-08-25T01:11:28.0012Z

The instance of time served is a particular tenure. Any dated property like this (including band membership, places lived) should have mutiple tenure instances for discontinuous tenures. Take a look at Grover Cleveland for an example.

Government: Government Office or Title

2008-08-24T00:30:29.0017Z

Should the time served under "Government Office or Title" allow for non-consecutive terms? See Peter Clavelle as Mayor of Burlington Vermont.

Domains and Types: Non-events

2008-08-16T04:21:31.0000Z

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

Domains and Types: 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.

Domains and Types: 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.

Domains and Types: 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

Domains and Types: Any one creating patent reference map with freebase

2008-08-14T15:09:43.0012Z

I can see how you got that idea, since most of our textual articles came from Wikipedia. However, the structured data came from many sources, including MusicBrainz, the SEC, and Freebase users like you.

Strictly, you can’t use other databases in Freebase; this is one database. (Well, OK, two or three. Still.) But you could import patent databases into Freebase, assuming that they are compatibe with our Creative Commons licensing requirement. Check out the US Patent type for the very small set of examples already populated.

Domains and Types: Any one creating patent reference map with freebase

2008-08-14T03:58:51.0017Z

I'm a newbbie around here.

So far I only got the idea that freebase is for wikipedia data only.

How 'm I going to use other database like USPTO ?

Domains and Types: Renaming the money category to Commerce

2008-08-13T20:09:25.0013Z

What would go in a classified section? Freebase is not really intended for ephemeral data such as classified ads themselves; we would quickly be full of obsolete listings. We could certainly model information about classified ads, but I am not sure what that would entail.

If you are thinking we should actually have classified ads—well, I’m not one of the Metaweb business people, but I can’t imagine that competing with Craigslist is something that would make our investors happy. (-: And remember that nothing in Freebase is ever deleted—not really an ideal tool for classified ads.

Domains and Types: Renaming the money category to Commerce

2008-08-13T17:29:01.0000Z

Speaking of changing it to commerce

what about a classified section? Or have I just missed it?

If there isn't one, there should be.

kconragan: Parrotfish?

2008-08-08T04:30:59.0013Z

Cheers! I just got through adding scientific name, rank, and higher classification for most.

kconragan: Parrotfish?

2008-08-08T03:31:51.0012Z

Now I can't remember which were duplicates, except that Scaridae seems to be a duplicate of Parrotfish :/ I'll keep my eyes open for more duplicates.

kconragan: Parrotfish?

2008-08-08T03:00:55.0013Z

That would be great Luke, thanks! Which ones in particular did you note as dupes? I knew quite a few were missing properties (plan on adding those shortly), but didn't realize I had imported any dupes. FYI, I'm co-typing all of these as Marine Creature, a new type I'm working in my Scuba domain Cheers!

Kai

kconragan: Parrotfish?

2008-08-06T07:57:48.0017Z

Hi,

Just browsing "Organism Classification" and saw some new Parrotfish entries :) I thought I'd link the species to genera, merge some with existing topics, and fill in a few details if that's OK with you.

Thanks,

Luke.

lukeschubert: NCBI link

2008-07-31T02:08:23.0018Z

Sample NCBI link here:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=7742

lukeschubert: Tshirt

2008-06-12T18:37:53.0012Z

Hey, I'd like to send you a Freebase tshirt in recognition of your contributions here. Could you email me your tshirt size and postal address to kirrily@metaweb.com? Thanks!

Organism Classification: Conservation Status

2008-06-11T20:37:42.0001Z

I happened to be looking at my state's endangered & threatened wildlife list and they had both state and federal status.

So that might be something to consider. Even if you only want to do federal level, it should be clear that it is.

And something else I just thought of, is you'd probably need a country field, or source/location, so people knew where it was endangered/threatened.

Organism Classification: Conservation Status

2008-06-11T20:01:33.0000Z

I agree with Ed's suggestion about the model, but I would add a date for delisting as well.

What I'd recommend is creating an "organism classification" type (or something similarly-named) in your private domain with the "conservation status" property, and try out some models there. Post back here (or on the data-modelers' list) when/if you want feedback. If it seems to work well, it could eventually get moved to the commons Biology domain.

Organism Classification: Conservation Status

2008-06-11T05:41:15.0007Z

I'd suggest modeling an "organism conservation status" type or something more inclusive sounding and then add it on a case by case basis. For example, I have imported Partners in Flight conservation status codes that are only applicable to birds in the Western Hemisphere. These should probably be added as part of CVTs with date and location properties. You could also add US conservation categories of threatened and endangered or subset it for state listings.

I would create a CVT with status code (that links to the status classification system), date, and location at a minimum. For example, Bald Eagles are going through a US federal delisting period but may still be listed as endangered at the state level in some states and their status today in the US is different than it was a year ago. So, those three properties (code, date, location) should be sufficient but are also essential.

Organism Classification: Conservation Status

2008-06-11T04:28:19.0005Z

I'd like to add a "conservation status" property to the schema, so that I can start adding endangered/extinct species data.

I'm assuming that "organism classification" would be the right topic...

lukeschubert: Thanks for the Australian libraries

2008-05-19T06:17:51.0000Z

Sure. Any libraries in particular? Last time I checked there were still a few missing ...

Yep, that's me.

lukeschubert: Thanks for the Australian libraries

2008-05-18T19:09:01.0000Z

Hey Luke, want to help me flesh out the SA libraries with more information?

By the way, are you http://www.perl.com/pub/au/Schubert_Luke ?

lukeschubert: Thanks for the Australian libraries

2008-04-18T18:10:43.0000Z

Yeah I did find that Victorian search.

I think it would be best to enter library systems and
build out branches from there; when I went to enter "Richmond Library" (my local one when I was in Melbourne) I found that there were lots of similarly-named ones in the US, and without any properties to distinguish my one from the others, it would just be an orphaned topic with little use.

http://www.libraries.vic.gov.au/librarylocator/az.cgi?listServices=1 looks like a not-bad list of public library *systems* in Vic.

You know about the list import tool right? Please tell me you do. It would make this way easier.

lukeschubert: Thanks for the Australian libraries

2008-04-18T04:48:18.0000Z

No problem :) I've started with those already in Freebase from Wikipedia, but was going to move on to other SA ones soon.

Not sure if there's one list for all of Australia. I just found this for South Australian libraries; this only allows a map-based search over all Australian libraries ...

How's this for Victorian libraries?

lukeschubert: Thanks for the Australian libraries

2008-04-17T06:07:51.0012Z

Hey, thanks for the Australian library adds today. I was just adding SLNSW and SLVIC and noticed yours. Wonder if we can find a list of local libraries or library systems to import?

lukeschubert: And hi, btw

2007-09-17T08:02:54.0000Z

Hi - yes, always good to see more Australians here.

I'll drop you an email - not sure if I want my email address on Freebase yet. :)

lukeschubert: And hi, btw

2007-09-09T08:09:08.0005Z

Just thought I'd introduce myself as a fellow Australian Freebaser. Do you IM at all? Would love to have someone close to my timezone to natter with about freebase stuff.

K.

Domains and Types: Philosophy

2007-08-31T23:51:06.0007Z

Examples? Sure. Existensialism is a typical example of a philosophy. As for what properties, I'm not sure. I imagine something like what the main focus of the philosophy is (e.g., some philosophies focus more on epistemology than on metaphysics, especially postmodernist philosophies), or what type of philosophy, etc. Wikipedia's philosophy portal would be a good model.

Domains and Types: Philosophy

2007-08-15T06:20:13.0007Z

What are some examples? Do you also have ideas for what properties might be applied to these philosophies?

Domains and Types: Renaming the money category to Commerce

2007-08-07T20:28:06.0007Z

Hey, PMM. Thanks for the suggestion.

On the Domains & Types page, "Money" is just a label for the collection of domains listed under it. That is, the things labeled as domain categories (including money) aren't part of the data structure per se. Instead, they're navigational elements to help people find related data. So toward that end, we're going for broad labels.

I'd say that "Commerce" is too narrow for the domains and types collected there, but it's certainly possible that another term would better help people find the data.

Sarah

Domains and Types: Renaming the money category to Commerce

2007-08-04T02:24:19.0011Z

As I was looking through the categories, it came to me that perhaps money is too broad for the types beneath. Money has an overarching quality that is not expressed in the types. Money is more like history. It is a property of or involved in more topics than we'd like to admit.

In contribution to the community,

PMM

Domains and Types: Philosophy

2007-07-31T03:25:09.0004Z

We need a type for philosophies. We've got topics on all sorts of philosophies, but they tend to be labeled as film or book subjects.

Domains and Types: Broader / narrower?

2007-05-19T02:24:48.0021Z

Perhaps a "Broader field of study" and "Narrower fields of study" or "Subdisciplines" property would be useful in organizing these? (i.e. Business Administration is a subdiscipline of Business)