Well the main difference is that you can install SMW on your webserbver because it's a plugin for MediaWiki, and Freebase is a knowledgebase that has been made by Metaweb (now Google) and is closed source.

You may also be interested in Wikidata and Dbpedia by the way :) ----- Yury Katkov, WikiVote

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:54 AM, Al work@public.podzone.net wrote:

Can anyone give their general opinion between the SMW and Freebase? Strengths and weaknesses? Future outlook? Ease of development?

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