On 03/07/2012 19:19, "Tom Morris" tfmorris@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Michael Smethurst michael.smethurst@bbc.co.uk wrote:
I'm really looking forward to Wikidata, but it sounds like you might not be familiar with Freebase which already provides solutions to some of your problems today.
Hi Tom
Short answer is we are familiar with Freebase and we have talked about using it but not done for a variety of reasons. Mainly because other data sets we use (like MusicBrainz) tend to link to Wikipedia and not Freebase (except through Wikipedia)
Should have probably split my list of problems into 2 parts: - using the data from dbpedia - using identifiers from dbpedia
Freebase would solve some of the data normalisation problems but as I said, mainly we use dbpedia as a source of identifiers and for identifier triangulation. We use a standard dump of Musicbrainz (rather than the MusicBrainz data in Freebase) so to triangulate to Freebase we'd need to go through Dbpedia and rely on their identifiers to be stable
Cheers michael
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