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Stephen Colbert: Stephen Colbert for President

2008-07-25T19:06:10.0000Z

flippity floo!

Scott Peterson: Split

2008-07-25T18:57:13.0017Z

I don't think this particular Scott Peterson is a TV Writer.

Special Agent Dale Cooper: same character

2008-07-25T18:50:29.0017Z

different topics were created for the same character that appeared in the TV show and the film - these should be merged

Sports: Sports Team - generalize City to Location

2008-07-25T00:43:05.0012Z

alright, this has been changed. See sports team

Yale University: yale college and yale university?

2008-07-24T14:54:09.0000Z

Wikipedia tends to classify by the broadest institution, so there are a lot of actors associated with Yale University instead of the drama school. I think it's fine that we start with the lower-precision classification and as data becomes available, replace it with the more specific.

Apple Inc.: What will be the next bullet of Apple Inc.

2008-07-24T14:32:34.0012Z

this is the interesting questions, I also wondering what would be the next bullet of Apple

Apple Inc.: What will be the next bullet of Apple Inc.

2008-07-24T07:38:50.0017Z

Apple have bring 3G iphone to the market, any idea about what's the next bullet of Apple

Cross: Color on model year

2008-07-24T04:37:23.0012Z

wow, /user/spatialed/motorcycle/motorcycle_paint_color is over the top. I'm gonna spend time on components and wheels, instead of color. having just text names for colors without the brand name is enough for me. thanks for pointing out the options, though.

Major League Baseball: Boston Braves?

2008-07-24T00:37:17.0007Z

I think the way I'd like to handle the Boston Braves is to have them not listed as a member of Major League baseball and potentially add a new property for sports team that is 'formerly known as' -- some more thinking needs to happen here. We're generally not doing a lot of 'locking down' of type instances... though we've done it in some cases. See 'gender' and 'country' types.

Major League Baseball: MLB not a league?

2008-07-24T00:33:31.0007Z

Alright... I've made some schema changes. Have a look at the 'member of' property on sport team. Here's an example with the Detroit Tigers.

If this approach looks viable, I'll probably remove or hide the specific properties that we have on types like 'baseball division' and 'baseball league' -- as these are generically covered in 'sports association' (which is the renamed version of 'sports league'.

Major League Baseball: MLB not a league?

2008-07-23T17:31:10.0007Z

I'm referring to Sports Team. There's no way to get from there to division... universally.

Major League Baseball: MLB not a league?

2008-07-23T15:57:34.0007Z

not sure why my second link got munged, but here's baseball teams again...

Major League Baseball: MLB not a league?

2008-07-23T15:55:00.0027Z

Let me clarify because I noticed that there is a division property under MLB. My statements have just been using MLB as an example. I am using the sports team, sports league topic to pull information on a team and I can't find a way to get the division information from these topics. In theory, the sports team should pull be able to directly access any information from baseball team, soccer team, etc using the same query.

Major League Baseball: MLB not a league?

2008-07-23T15:54:10.0007Z

So these views aren't working for you?

Major League Baseball: Boston Braves?

2008-07-23T15:40:23.0000Z

Looks like there needs to be a "Historical team" option here.

Major League Baseball: Boston Braves?

2008-07-23T15:34:02.0012Z

I've got the Boston Braves showing up for searches for Major League Baseball teams. Is there a way to lock categories once its verfiied that the information is correct? If not there should be, so that an editor can lock down a category like Major League Baseball. The data isn't going to be changing anytime soon, and it would allow much more time for people like me to add new information instead of going back and trying to fix all the bogus or misplaced information. Thanks.

Major League Baseball: MLB not a league?

2008-07-23T15:32:37.0000Z

Any word on this? There's still no way to display teams by division and that sucks.

Umpire: Film character and fictional character should be split off

2008-07-23T15:25:33.0012Z

These refer to a specific instance of "Umpire" as a character in a film and should be moved to a distinct topic.

Sports: Automobile racing and other motorsports

2008-07-23T15:24:44.0000Z

The only reason there isn’t is that no one has been interested enough to make it. So go do it! Make a private domain of your own and start modeilng it. Post here and invite others to join in. When you think it’s done, ask for it to be promoted into the data commons.

You may find the data modeling mailing list helpful both in your modeing efforts and in recruiting others to help.

Sports: Automobile racing and other motorsports

2008-07-23T07:38:34.0005Z

It would be nice to have a type specifically for this.

Cross: Color on model year

2008-07-22T18:28:45.0000Z

How about inputting the colors as "<brand><color>", or if that doesn't disambiguate multiple colors from the same company enough, "<brand><model><color>"?

For example, the FCR2 model of Giant Fitness/FCR series comes in two colors: Brushed Silver and Brushed Purple. If every Giant bike of Brushed Silver is of the same color, I would name the color topic "Giant Brushed Silver" in Freebase.

Also, you really need a "Bicycle Paint Color" type that would have, in addition to the color name, the manufacturer color code, models the color is available in, etc. You may want to take a look at spatialed's Motorcycle Paint Color type.

The Venture Bros.: first...

2008-07-22T04:00:43.0012Z

of all. I love this show.

John Foreman: Move all films produced

2008-07-21T07:02:39.0000Z

done

John Foreman: Move all films produced

2008-07-20T16:11:03.0005Z

to http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000468bfd3

Cross: Color on model year

2008-07-18T16:05:54.0012Z

Is it ok to add fancy colors to the color type? I added some kind of fancy black for the bontrager crankset.

Cross: Color on model year

2008-07-17T05:30:33.0007Z

Yeah, I agree. If bikes have descriptive names like cars, then it makes sense to go back to text.

Cross: Color on model year

2008-07-17T05:14:33.0000Z

if we have color as text, then we can use more descriptive colors. I noticed that's what autos do. it's a tradeoff of normalizing colors versus have the fancier names.

Cross: Color on model year

2008-07-17T04:48:31.0005Z

Updated the ECT to the color type

Film: Movie Subtitles

2008-07-07T23:37:16.0012Z

Hi Ian --

Subtitles would be covered by copyright protection, so you would only be allowed to add them from films from the public domain or with an open license (such as CC-BY).

Copyright law, however, does allow small fragments from copyrighted works to be cited. I don't know what the limits are, but I imagine that many short subtitle snippets would be allowed per movie, perhaps from key scenes.

Also, aside from the contents of the subtitles themselves, what kind of metadata would you imagine having for subtitles? Freebase could store that information without restrictions.

R

Film: Movie Subtitles

2008-07-07T23:35:30.0000Z

It's great that you are finding a good use of our service! Thanks!

Our goal is to provide linkages between sets of data, not really to be a repository for data in of itself...

Thus we provide an excerpt of the associated wikipedia article as a blurb (but not recreate the entire article, that's what the linkages (and keys) back to Wikipedia are for. We allow for weblinks to sites that have specific and useful information about the topic but is of a restrictive licensed nature (IMDb for example).

Our database is not set up for large amounts of text. We encourage the use of text for specific notation about a specific property but not for than about almost a thousand characters.

Secondly, legality.

Your subtitles are a form of film script and would most likely be considered as property of the creators/owner of the film. At best they would be a grey area of legality to be made available in text form outside of the film, video tape or disc.

If it was a film you wrote and owned outright, and was published with an CC license, the providing the subtitles externally from the film would most likely be legal in that case ;)

What you could do is create your own type in your own private domain (default one or a more specifically named 'Film Subtitles' domain). The type could designed to contain what subtitles in what editions of the film (Theatrical Release/DVD/TV Broadcast) in what languages...Check out how the Film Regional Release Date is designed, though it may need not be a Compound Value Type.

http://www.freebase.com/tools/schema/film/film_regional_release_date

TV Episode: Dubbers

2008-07-07T22:27:21.0013Z

Use the "special performance type" column in the "Performances" property on TV Episode. You should be able to select "Voice" for these types of performances.

Film: Movie Subtitles

2008-07-07T07:50:45.0012Z

Hi all,

I have been using Freebase for a little while now to index my movie collection (where film information exist in Freebase) and, eventually, upload film information back to Freebase. I have subtitles for the majority of my films and think they would make a valuable addition to the Freebase Film schema (imagine querying for who said a particular line and in which films).

How would I go about adding a Subtitles schema to Freebase and linking it to the Films/TV schema?

Alternatively, if this schema already exists, could somebody point me at it? I searched but couldn't find it.

Cheers,

Ian

Sports: Sports Team - generalize City to Location

2008-07-06T21:51:58.0012Z

Either generalize the field or add more location fields for those types of teams.

TV Episode: Dubbers

2008-07-06T04:31:18.0013Z

How should I model a specific person who voices a specific other person in a specific TV episode? e.g. Kent Frick voicing Chairman Kaga in the Iron Chef blue crab battle?

Film actor: Related question

2008-07-05T16:43:20.0000Z

I've been trying to figure out how I'd go about this, and I have looked at the TV and Broadcast domains but I'm completely confused and have absolutely no idea how to start. But thank you for the reply!

Film actor: Related question

2008-07-05T09:08:53.0000Z

There is no existing type for Performance as a character in a radio broadcast as of yet.

Radio (at this time) is a very rudimentary domain that holds great promise for those wishing to model from its existing skeletal structure. There are great examples in the current TV and Film domains to use as inpiration or templates for new types to capture episodes, performances, characters, personal appearances etc.

You can always consider drafting up your own Radio Performance, Radio Performer, Radio Episode, Radio Show/Series, etc.

Film actor: Related question

2008-07-05T02:16:25.0005Z

What type should I use for a radio actor? i.e. someone who voices a part in a radio drama?

Film: Add Box Office property to the Film type?

2008-07-03T08:32:15.0012Z

Yeah, that makes sense. So, Worldwide Box Office, and Local Box Office.

TV: TV filming location

2008-07-02T18:39:23.0012Z

I think we should have a type, "TV filming location", for things like "Survivor: Vanuatu" which was filmed in Vanuatu. Thoughts?

Major League Baseball: MLB not a league?

2008-06-30T19:13:41.0000Z

True, but you can see what I'm getting at. I'm a big fan of the contains and containedby because they have so many uses.

Please keep me in the loop.

Film: Add Box Office property to the Film type?

2008-06-30T14:26:31.0012Z

How about adding box office for the country of ORIGIN and world wide? For example, a german movie doesn't often even get to US theatres, their box office would therefor not be very interesting while the german would...

Film: Extra feature for "Performances"?

2008-06-30T14:23:54.0012Z

Yes, I know I can specify the occupation there. But this doesn't completely answer my idea.

1. It would be nice to have the occupation on the moviesite too, next to the characters name as sometimes this is needed for knowing who this character is. Like finding out that Star X played the doc in the movie as "Mr Y" might not help you that easy.

2.t would be useful to view any titles of the person in a seperat column. Else the Characters ar created as "Dr. Jed Hill" instead of "Jed Hill" with "Dr." in another viewed column.

Major League Baseball: MLB not a league?

2008-06-27T23:50:52.0012Z

We could create that pattern, as exists for location, its an interesting idea. I'm not sure the 'east division' of MLB's American league and the 'pacific division' of the NBA's Western conference are 'leagues' exactly, however.

Major League Baseball: MLB not a league?

2008-06-25T20:51:48.0005Z

Well, actually it is but there's no way to say that it contains the American and National Leagues. This is the same for all sports leagues, so I'm proposing:

ADD "contains" and "contained by" to Sports League. This way it would work like this:

Major League Baseball
--- National League
--- East Division, Central, West
--- American League
--- East Division, Central, West

It would be the same for other leagues as well.

Sports Facility: Facility which isn't a structure?

2008-06-23T20:46:30.0012Z

Sports Facilities includes the type structure. The type hint for structure is ""Structure" is the generic type for all things built", so i believe that it's generic enough to still be an included type of Sports Facilities - feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

As for your other comment, are you meaning to ask if we are using Sports Facilities to model things such as gyms or college recreational sports facilities? Currently, I don't believe we use Sports Facility in any other capacity other then to designate it as a facility that is designed for for sporting events.

Sports Facility: Facility which isn't a structure?

2008-06-21T14:38:22.0000Z

The present schema of Sports Facility is just a building or building complex whose 'Building Function' is Sports.

Is there any other purpose to 'Sports Facility'?

Sports Facility: Facility which isn't a structure?

2008-06-21T14:10:21.0005Z

I'm trying to start a type for Race Tracks (such as Daytona Internation SpeedWay).

These are most definitely Sports Facilities, but they do not need to have any structure. Horse racing for example can be done in an empty field.

In some cases they may contain multiple structures.

Film: Extra feature for "Performances"?

2008-06-05T16:29:19.0000Z

Johann, characters definitely do have occupations and you can certainly fill them out. There’s just a limit to how much information about the character is visible from the actor or film, especially since the same character may be played by multiple actors and appear in multiple works of fiction across multiple media. Just fill out the character’s name from the performance, then go visit it and flesh it out with occupation, gender, place of birth, and anything else you want to add.

Film: Extra feature for "Performances"?

2008-06-05T13:52:58.0005Z

I think it would be useful to have the possibility to not only be able to write the actor and its character, but also it's charakters occupation. See http://freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000006dce3e for an example:

One shouldn't remove the "attorney" or "nurse", as it is necessary (or at least helpful) information tofind the character in the movie - but itwould be nicer to only have the name for the role's site.

Sorry for being so unclear, I'm not good at english... let me try once more:

If I click on the character of Alex Baldwin this will lead me to the article "Dr. Jed Hill", better would be do have the doctor (or attorney for others) in an extra box and the link therefor linking to "Jed Hill" (or "Dennis Riley" instead of "Attorney Dennis Riley" - "Attorney" would then be linked to the occupation "Attorney)

I hope at least someone could follow me ;-)

Film: Add Box Office property to the Film type?

2008-05-21T04:34:50.0007Z

I think the box office is clearer than total gross earnings, because the latter could include DVD sales, rentals, TV rights, merchandising, etc. For example, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End domestically made almost as much in DVD sales as with ticket sales: $280 M compared to $310 M.

I guess the world box office would be good, or maybe US as it's the 40% of the world movie market, rest of the world, and world (US + rest of the world). I haven't yet come across a website that breaks it down further that that.

>I would like to have a date for the earnings total so a better more accurate comparison of over a century of grosses can be done.

Do you mean you would like to have the data adjusted for inflation?