Has anybody actually done an assessment on Freebase and its reliability?
Is it *really* too unreliable to import wholesale?
Are there any stats/progress graphs as to how the actual import is in
fact going?
-- James.
On 24/09/2015 19:35, Lydia Pintscher wrote:
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 8:31 PM, Tom Morris
<tfmorris(a)gmail.com> wrote:
This is
to add MusicBrainz to the primary source tool, not anything else?
It's apparently worse than that (which I hadn't realized until I re-read the
transcript). It sounds like it's just going to generate little warning
icons for "bad" facts and not lead to the recording of any new facts at all.
17:22:33 <Lydia_WMDE> we'll also work on getting the extension deployed that
will help with checking against 3rd party databases
17:23:33 <Lydia_WMDE> the result of constraint checks and checks against 3rd
party databases will then be used to display little indicators next to a
statement in case it is problematic
17:23:47 <Lydia_WMDE> i hope this way more people become aware of issues and
can help fix them
17:24:35 <sjoerddebruin> Do you have any names of databases that are
supported? :)
17:24:59 <Lydia_WMDE> sjoerddebruin: in the first version the german
national library. it can be extended later
I know Freebase is deemed to be nasty and unreliable, but is MusicBrainz
considered trustworthy enough to import directly or will its facts need to
be dripped through the primary source soda straw one at a time too?
The primary sources tool and the extension that helps us check against
other databases are two independent things.
Imports from Musicbrainz have been happening since a very long time already.
Cheers
Lydia