Accreditation?
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Hi, I didn't see a property for entering accreditation info for an Educational Institution. I'd like to request it be added if it doesn't yet exist. It should include the authority that gives the accreditation as well.
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Should be easy enough to do; I think I had mocked something up awhile back but there wasn't much interest at the time. I'll try to dig it up. Any thoughts on a data source?
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I was right -- I had messed with this before:
https://sandbox.freebase.com/view/education/accreditation
Let me know what you think. I'll post this to data-modeling as well.
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I like the model.
In terms of data source within the US the Department of Education has a public-facing database that allows searches:
It doesn't support returning all results at once (too many, says the web site). Choosing the "WASC, Accrediting Commission for Schools" as the accrediting agency, however, I got 209 results back: not bad. Getting to the year of accreditation requires an additional mouse click, but I'm sure someone on the data team can figure out a more automatic way of getting all the data in one piece. Better yet, perhaps the Department of Education would be willing to share this data with the Freebase community in a more portable format.
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