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A base is a new type of website that anyone can build using the free, open data in...

A base is a new type of website that anyone can build using the free, open data in Freebase. It is a place to organize and share collections of information about a particular subject, like San Francisco, American Comedy, or The Smurfs. Bases can encompass many things, but they all share common characteristics: You can customize your base with your own color schemes and graphics, but all bases have common features: We plan to offer more customization options for your base in the future, so stay tuned! In the meantime, please contact us if anything needs further clarification. There are a number of reasons why you might want to make a base. For example: Bases are optimized for structured information, like facts, figures, and lists, and are designed to be shared, free resources for the world. Things that don’t belong in a base include long articles without structured information, encrypted data, copyrighted content, or data that is not “generally useful.” The Freebase Contribution Guidelines explain what this means in more detail. And if you have any questions about it, please don’t hesitate to contact us. By default, the information in a base can be edited by anyone. This allows others to add to and improve your base, making it bigger and better as time goes on. To help prevent vandalism, we have a number of tools that anyone can use to monitor and revert bad edits. If you have a complete and authoritative dataset that would not benefit from user contributions, feel free to contact us and let us know. We’re happy to discuss “read only” options in cases where an openly editable model does not make sense. In general, we expect capabilities around privacy and read protection to expand in the future, so please let us know if you have any feedback or related feature requests. The collection of user-created bases is a very important part of Freebase as a whole. The other part of Freebase is the Freebase Commons. The Freebase Commons is a collection of over 4 million topics that users can draw from when they’re creating a base. These topics are grouped together by subject so that they’re easy to browse. The Film Commons, for example, contains nearly 300,000 topics related to the movie industry, and the Business Commons contains 725,000 topics on companies, board members, and other business related subjects. Over time, the community will promote the highest quality bases to the Freebase Commons so that anyone can reuse and add to them.