Freebase is a large collaborative knowledge base. It is an online collection of structured data harvested from many sources, including individual 'wiki' contribution. Freebase aims to create a global resource which allows people (and machines) to access common information more effectively. It is developed by the American software company Metaweb and has been running publicly since March 2007.
Freebase data is available for use under a Creative Co...
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Freebase is a large collaborative knowledge base. It is an online collection of structured data harvested from many sources, including individual 'wiki' contribution. Freebase aims to create a global resource which allows people (and machines) to access common information more effectively. It is developed by the American software company Metaweb and has been running publicly since March 2007.
Freebase data is available for use under a Creative Commons “attribution” license, and an API, rdf endpoint, and database dump are provided for programmers. Google's News Timeline includes media information from Freebase.
On March 3, 2007 Metaweb publicly announced Freebase, described by the company as "an open shared database of the world's knowledge," and "a massive, collaboratively-edited database of cross-linked data." Often understood as a wikipedia-turned-database, freebase provides an interface that allows non-programmers to fill in structured, or 'meta-data', of general information, and...
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