Hey Laura,
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Laura DOMINIQUE
<laura.dominique(a)dailymotion.com> wrote:
Hi Team,
I’m working at Dailymotion and we are currently using Freebase to gather information
about Topic mentioned in our video catalogue:
It is used upon upload where user can enter tags on video (list of tag is based on
Freebase’s topic list)
It is also used to create pages around a topic and thus classifies videos (example:
http://www.dailymotion.com/us/topic/01mpq7s-beyonce-knowles)
Note that this project is only on Beta version on our side.
However, we have closely followed the announcement around the migration to Wikidata and
have some questions:
Can you confirm what is the new planning as it is said Freebase would still exists after
the 30th of June 2015?
This is something only Google can answer.
I suppose API calls would not remain the same. Would
there be a mapping provided to ease the switch?
There is currently no mapping of the API available. It is possible
that someone will code it. It is not on my team's plan at this point.
Would the entire set of topics included in Freebase be
migrated to Wikidata? If not, how the selection would be done?
Not everything in Freebase will migrate to Wikidata. A lot of topics
you are likely interested in already exist in Wikidata. The rest can
be added by the community if they meet the notability criteria. (They
are currently under review in the community.)
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Notability
For a given topic, is there some information that
would not be integrated in Wikidata (for example: alias, official_website,…)
Not all statements from Freebase will be migrated to Wikidata. Over
the next weeks we should be seeing more data from Freebase being made
available to the Wikidata community through the primary sources tool.
We'll have to see what kind of data Google can free up and which part
of that the Wikidata community would like to take in.
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Primary_sources_tool
Hope that helps.
Cheers
Lydia
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