Is there anybody here who has a serious interest in accounts on [[Metaweb]]'s Freebase project? They just gave me another tranche of them, and there's no sense letting them just sit there.
I think the short description is that they would like to be the Internet's machine-readable almanac. Where Wikipedia is about prose, they're about data. For example, they've done some parsing of Wikipedia extracts on things like movies and albums, so that you can make database-like queries against that info. So you could build queries to answer questions like, "What actors has Francis Ford Coppola worked with?"
Right now they're at an early stage, and are mainly looking for developers who will build Freebase-backed tools and people likely to spend time actually contributing content. If that's you, please drop me a line off-list.
Thanks,
William
William Pietri wrote:
Is there anybody here who has a serious interest in accounts on [[Metaweb]]'s Freebase project? They just gave me another tranche of them, and there's no sense letting them just sit there.
I think the short description is that they would like to be the Internet's machine-readable almanac. Where Wikipedia is about prose, they're about data. For example, they've done some parsing of Wikipedia extracts on things like movies and albums, so that you can make database-like queries against that info. So you could build queries to answer questions like, "What actors has Francis Ford Coppola worked with?"
Right now they're at an early stage, and are mainly looking for developers who will build Freebase-backed tools and people likely to spend time actually contributing content. If that's you, please drop me a line off-list.
If I give you 1000 Wikipedia accounts to give away, will you go spam the Freebase mailing list for me?
-- Tim Starling
On 6/27/07, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
William Pietri wrote:
Is there anybody here who has a serious interest in accounts on [[Metaweb]]'s Freebase project? They just gave me another tranche of them, and there's no sense letting them just sit there.
I think the short description is that they would like to be the Internet's machine-readable almanac. Where Wikipedia is about prose, they're about data. For example, they've done some parsing of Wikipedia extracts on things like movies and albums, so that you can make database-like queries against that info. So you could build queries to answer questions like, "What actors has Francis Ford Coppola worked with?"
Right now they're at an early stage, and are mainly looking for developers who will build Freebase-backed tools and people likely to spend time actually contributing content. If that's you, please drop me a line off-list.
If I give you 1000 Wikipedia accounts to give away, will you go spam the Freebase mailing list for me?
I'm torn between agreeing with you and not caring because it sounds like a pretty neat concept.
I'll forgive you, William, if you can hook me up with a few shares of Metaweb stock :).
Anthony
Tim Starling wrote:
If I give you 1000 Wikipedia accounts to give away, will you go spam the Freebase mailing list for me?
Sorry, no spamming was intended. I did some work for them a few months back, but currently have no financial relationship with them or any expectation of one. I just thought it was a cool project that is making a lot of Wikipedia data accessible in ways that we aren't yet.
Lesson learned, though; I'll avoid mentioning such things on-list in the future. Sorry for the trouble.
William
On 6/27/07, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
Lesson learned, though; I'll avoid mentioning such things on-list in the future. Sorry for the trouble.
William
Personally, this is obviously very related to wikipedia, and interesting. That's the only things I would like to see in this list. :) There are a lot more threads much less interesting than this one... It's not like freebase is asking for money or anything, which would be a little weird.
Judson [[:en:User:Cohesion]]
On 28/06/07, cohesion cohesion@sleepyhead.org wrote:
On 6/27/07, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
Lesson learned, though; I'll avoid mentioning such things on-list in the future. Sorry for the trouble.
William
Personally, this is obviously very related to wikipedia, and interesting. That's the only things I would like to see in this list. :) There are a lot more threads much less interesting than this one... It's not like freebase is asking for money or anything, which would be a little weird.
Yeah, it struck me as pretty exciting. It covers one of the remaining major niches of "knowledge" - we don't have on WMF projects - a place set up to handle statistical data. Wikipedia understandably frowns on bare lists of figures unless they're an embellishment to articles; Wikisource won't take it unless it's part of an identifiably published work.
On 6/28/07, cohesion cohesion@sleepyhead.org wrote:
On 6/27/07, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
Lesson learned, though; I'll avoid mentioning such things on-list in the future. Sorry for the trouble.
William
Personally, this is obviously very related to wikipedia, and interesting. That's the only things I would like to see in this list. :) There are a lot more threads much less interesting than this one... It's not like freebase is asking for money or anything, which would be a little weird.
Surely they will be asking for money eventually, probably from advertisers.