Private Data
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I really love the Freebase data model. As well as contributing to the public data, I would also love to use it to log and organise my private data i.e. contacts, account numbers. Is it possible to create a domain that is viewable only to myself? Or alternatively, can the Freebase software be downloaded for personal use?
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Short answer: no. Freebase is a data commons. All data in it is publicly available. Some of it is harder to find than others (such as unpublished domains) but anything in Freebase can be found with the right query.
While the data in Freebase is licensed under a few different open data licenses, the software underlying the site is currently the proprietary property of Metaweb Technologies. Currently, we are focused exclusively on building the data commons; it is possible that private metawebs will be available at some point in the future, but for now, it’s all about the Freebase commons.
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Thanks very much for your help on both counts.
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