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| x View the developer toolbar | Developer |
To view the developer toolbar, click F8 while viewing any Freebase page, then scroll to the bottom of the page. You will see all kinds of useful information and links to some handy pages for expert users.
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| x Perform transitive queries | Developer |
Let's say you want to find all the Freebase users who live in the USA, but they have their locations set to things like "San Francisco" or "New Orleans". How do you ask for "USA, and anything within the USA"? While MQL doesn't currently support...
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| x Avoid caching problems when using the API | Developer |
Imagine a situation where you have an application that's doing the same mqlread over and over, and meanwhile someone else is changing the data, for instance via the Freebase.com UI or via another application. Your app won't pick up those data...
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| x Guids Are Faster than IDs | Developer |
Freebase ids and guids are both unambiguous ways of referencing topics in Freebase. If you're running queries which return a large number of values and you'd like to get a key to reference them by, asking for guid rather than the id can be...
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| x How to monitor schema changes |
If your application depends on specific freebase schema you should subscribe to the developers@freebase.com and data-modeling mailing lists. Metaweb sends advanced notice of system schema changes to one or both of those lists.
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| x Handle generalized dates | Developer |
In the graph we can represent the date as 2007, 2007-10, 2007-10-03, etc..technically these dates are UTC.Unfortunately when this gets loaded into a Javascript object in the browser, it gets converted to an absolute time (like Jan 1, 2007 at 0:00UTC...
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| x Keep up with Freebase discussions | General |
1. WATCHED DISCUSSIONS In any discussion page, there is an option to "Watch this discussion". By clicking on this, the discussion will show up on your homepage, and you will see new posts. 2. RSS FEEDS All discussions have...
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| x Explicitly specify name or id | Developer |
When asked to display a simple string form of a property value, MQL has some rules that it follows.
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| x Creating Schemas | Data modeling | ||
| x Beginner's Guide: Creating Schemas | Data modeling |
If you've spent any time exploring Freebase you've no doubt seen the types that are associated with every topic, and you've probably seen some interesting bases and types that other users have made. You've probably also started thinking about ways...
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| x Data Modeling Guide |
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Data modeling |
Although the Freebase application makes it a lot easier to create and maintain types, data modeling is still a difficult and nuanced discipline. By following these guidelines, you will make your data more usable, extensible and understandable to...
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| x Guide to Freebase Types | Data modeling |
Types aren't one-size-fits-all; in fact, there are several different kinds of types you can create and use in Freebase, depending on how you want users to enter information for their properties, or how you want them to relate to types that others...
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| x Retrieve the Wikipedia URL for an object with a GUID |
Wikipedia URLs are created automatically by substituting the /wikipedia/en_id key of the topic into the following URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=8980330 where 8980330 is the /wikipedia/en_id key. You can retrieve the /wikipedia/en...
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