robert

Type Meter: This app gives timeouts

2008-07-19T21:11:51.0000Z

Will -

Some love from mql/graphd:

{

"return" : "estimate-count"

...

}

midness: Thanks for contributing to the Medicine domain!

2008-07-19T14:03:39.0000Z

Hey, thanks! It's no problem at all, really, I find this sort of stuff really interesting :D.

Roadmap of future features: Option to require included type

2008-07-18T23:48:42.0013Z

Beyond the ranking suggestion above, people have tried to add bands and tv shows to the influence domain, and I'm not really watching the additions that carefully.

Is there a way to require an included type (person, in this case)? Tv shows and bands aren't the focus for the domain, but beyond saying that in the description, it's hard to monitor.

Julius Caesar: I don't see why this should be split

2008-07-18T19:20:28.0014Z

This is the generic Julius Caesar, not for a specific Caesar fictionalization.

Food: Plain old food type

2008-07-18T16:40:02.0000Z

The USDA has a fairly extensive database of nutritional data (per 100g unit) available for download at: http://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=8964

It includes base ingredients (e.g. various cuts of meat), both cooked and uncooked. If you're looking for nutritional information or ideas on how to classify it, that may be a good place to start.

The data consists of multiple files - one per table - containing one record per line in a fixed width text format. It probably wouldn't be too difficult for someone with time on their hands to write an importer for freebase.

Business: Joint Ventures

2008-07-18T16:31:52.0005Z

How do we want to do JVs? Technically the companies that "own" the JV would go under Major Shareholders, however there's no way to actually designate the JV as a JV (as opposed to a "regular" company that is public and has shareholders).

Perhaps it could be a Company Type?

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.

Horsepower: Adding as a unit—with reservations

2008-07-18T14:52:11.0013Z

I am making this a unit of power, with some serious reservations. As the Wikipedia article notes, the word “horsepower” actually means a great many different things in different contexts. When the specific kind of horsepower being used is known, the corresponding Freebase instance should be used. However, as for instance automotive standards have changed with time, the horsepower of an engine can’t be described any more specifically than to use this as the general unit.

Beginner's Guide: Contributing to Freebase: shokof,yekishim

2008-07-18T07:29:49.0005Z

after rading and reasearching much about this thinker, i hae come to conclusin it is important to write in regards to Daryush Shokof and his thoughts of Yekishim .this artist has beenaround and in the "hiding" for many yearsbut always great for a grand surprise. he shocked the world with hs film "sven Servants" and continued some of the most original thought provoking cocepts in all directions from arts, to writing and cinema to convince me hat this is not to be aken lightly. shokof,s Yekishim is a sign of a great religious tendencies to be taken seriously, and would in my opinion be considered as one of the greates concept man has come across to for creatng a much different and positive world for centuries to come.

Yekishim is milions of years ahead of all other beliefs since life existed on earth, and t will coin this man,s name n the history of humanity as a grand thinker with some of the most originally unique thoughts aimed for te better life of people on earth, and "afterwards".

Visual Art: For review on sandbox: "Art Series" type

2008-07-18T04:16:28.0013Z

Hi, I've added a new type "Art Series" on sandbox for review. For details please see:

http://lists.freebase.com/pipermail/data-modeling/2008-July/000969.html

Thanks.

midness: Thanks for contributing to the Medicine domain!

2008-07-17T18:14:26.0012Z

Wow, you're on fire, Sam! Your contribution to the Medicine domain is really appreciated. A special nod for adding medical trial data to Lupus, this week's featured topic of the domain. Keep up the good work!

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

American comedy: Criteria for type "Comedian" in this domain

2008-07-17T01:11:14.0007Z

Sounds good -- it's also consistent with what one might expect. :)

American comedy: Criteria for type "Comedian" in this domain

2008-07-16T23:34:09.0000Z

The main criterion is not whether or not a comedian is american. It's whether they had a siginficant influence on comedy in America, which would include many Canadians, Britons and Australians (among other nationalities.)

Further, simply because somebody is American does not qualify them to be part of this domain. They should have had some significant influence. Note that this inclusion criterion is more liberal for currently active (or up and coming) comedians.

American comedy: Criteria for type "Comedian" in this domain

2008-07-16T18:31:27.0012Z

What criteria qualify someone as an instance of the "Comedian" type in the "American comedy" domain? Does the comedian have to have American nationality, or would a role in an American comedy show suffice?

I was adding SNL cast members to the type until I realized some of the actors are not American, yet have no doubt celebrated as part of American comedy. Should they be typed here? Some examples are Tony Rosato, Pamela Stephenson, and Norm Macdonald.

American comedy: What makes a "TV Show"?

2008-07-16T05:46:57.0007Z

I'm still trying to figure out what criteria should be used when adding a show. This is what I used so far:

- It should be primarily a comedy. That is, some shows are dramas with comedy elements, so those typically wouldn't be included.

- It has some cultural significance or some major influence on comedy in america. If it was a hit, I included it, even if it wasn't particularly "good".

I realize that these are pretty soft criteria, and if somebody adds something in that's more obscure, but a good find, then I think that would be great.

Also, I added "Comedian" as an included type of "Group member". Thanks for catching that.

American comedy: What makes a "TV Show"?

2008-07-16T02:43:06.0005Z

I wasn't sure what kinds of shows to add to TV show. Is it all comedies?

Also, it seems like "Group member" should have an included type of "Comedian"?

Transportation: Junctions

2008-07-14T05:08:01.0005Z

I noticed major junctions are hidden in the road schema. Does this mean we shouldn't create them, or do you just not want them displayed at the moment?

Bug / Feature Request: Airport ICAO Code

2008-07-09T14:36:33.0000Z

Thanks for the info. I'll wait to add smaller airports until the codes come in -- it should make it a lot easier to keep track of (some airports(some have multiple names and it gets confusing!).

Freebase: Edit a Topic with Redirect Type?

2008-07-08T22:10:50.0030Z

I've removed the type /proficiency from the developers page. There really isn't a way to do this with the UI, so bringing it up here was a good choice.

Bug / Feature Request: Airport ICAO Code

2008-07-08T21:59:57.0044Z

Hi evening,

See http://www.freebase.com/discuss/threads/authority/icao/ESSX#/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000089b3836 . The long and short of it is that we've updated the property to be an property enumeration with a more restrictive permission. We hope to be loading some more airport data soon, so stay tuned!

Bug / Feature Request: Airport ICAO Code

2008-07-08T20:49:35.0012Z

I can't enter a value for the ICAO field under Airports. When I try to save the value I get a message saying I don't have authorization. Is this a bug, or by design?

an example code is FMMI for Ivato Airport in Madagascar

Freebase: Edit a Topic with Redirect Type?

2008-07-08T20:47:50.0012Z

I accidentally assigned a co-type to the Freebase developers page, and not even on the sandbox :(

However, even trying to access the new instance result in a redirect, so I have no way of removing the type, at least through the GUI.

Freebase: Edit a Topic with Redirect Type?

2008-07-08T19:05:28.0044Z

What are you trying to do? The Redirect type (/freebase/redirect), like most types in the Freebase domain, is a special type, used in the UI, and its instances shouldn't be editable by most users. But there are only four instances of the type, and I assume that you're not trying to edit the home page, so I'm probably missing something.

Freebase: Edit a Topic with Redirect Type?

2008-07-08T02:45:09.0012Z

It doesn't seem like there's any way to edit a topic with the redirect co-type.

I'm guessing there may be some kind of URL param I can enter to avoid the redirect?

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

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

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.

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.

Airline: Airport lounge

2008-06-29T23:25:22.0012Z

Honestly, I couldn't tell you what the original thinking was when this was modeled. That being said, we're in the process of reworking the aviation domain/airport stuff, so we'll definitely correct stuff like this.

Airline: Airport lounge

2008-06-29T16:01:29.0005Z

Why does this link to ICAO airport designation instead of Airport?

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 ;-)

Type Meter: This app gives timeouts

2008-05-26T15:42:26.0005Z

Note to self: times-out if you try ?type=/people/person

I could use the instance counts generated by ??? bot but then the progress meter will only update at the frequency as the bot (daily?

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?

Film: Add Box Office property to the Film type?

2008-05-21T01:19:44.0000Z

I assume total gross earnings would be appropriate? I guess it could be similar to the estimated budget. 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.

Or is it that more detail is desired?

US-centric: US Domestic & Foreign
By Region: Europe, Asia, North America, South America, Africa, Oceano-Pacific, Antartica
Other?

Film: Add Box Office property to the Film type?

2008-05-18T03:21:20.0012Z

Could someone add the Box Office or Earnings property to the Film type? http://www.worldwideboxoffice.com/ can be used to get this data for major films.

robert: test

2008-05-13T22:33:39.0012Z

Data Mob Projects

Shopping Centers

There are two way to approach this. The first is to load in a heap of shopping centres from...
My Hero

Who's your hero? Whether it's Winston Churchill or Wonder Woman, look it up in Freebase then...
Shhhhh! The library data mob.

One of the newest domains in the Freebase Commons is Library. Is your local public library...

Food: Plain old food type

2007-12-16T23:36:38.0032Z

Also a property for the basic food type called 'form' or something similar would help add more detail to the original food type. You example of crackers containing powdered cheddar cheese is a good candidate. In that scneario 'ingrediant' itself would be a cvt between food A, food B and the form of the contained food. However things like HFCS complicate things a bit, but for the most part, it would be quite helpful as shredded cheddar cheese is different from powedered cheddar cheese.

Food: Plain old food type

2007-12-15T20:58:43.0000Z

Lets start thediscussion on food... My primary interest is in nutritional information and ingredients of "complex" foods. But I think this gets complex reasonably quickly.

For example, some brand of crackers may contain powered cheddar cheese, which is itself a food. But the nutritional value of the crackers probably can't be easily derived from Cheddar Cheese.. not to mention that Cheddar Cheese is itself a food. Cheddar Cheese contains cow's milk and rennet, but I don't think we'd consider rennet itself a food.

So my proposal is a type Food which has an included type Ingredient, as well as a property Ingredients which points to a list of Ingredients.

Food would have properties like Genre, maybe Country of origin, etc... but Ingredient would have stuff like "Nutritional information"

Nutritional Information would be a CVT which would indicate how many units of some nutritional thing, normalized to a "per 100g" unit (I think that's the standard in Europe, and the US is based on Serving Size, which is totally non-normalizable)

for example, cheddar cheese might have "2 mg of Vitamin A" - so the CVT for Nutritional Value would have an Integer quantity, a mass unit unit, and a nutritional thing.

Thoughts? I'll model this up on sandbox...

Food: Plain old food type

2007-11-13T20:03:03.0007Z

I have to agree.. then we could list the ingredients of Twinkie which appears in the wikipedia article.

Food: Plain old food type

2007-09-15T17:10:00.0012Z

It would be good to have a plain old "food" type (very much like beverage) and perhaps a "food genre" type (fruit, dessert, meat, vegetable etc). There's lots of very simple things we can say about food that there's no way to express right now.

robert: Loved D/Generation Game - Thanks Robert!

2007-07-23T01:54:32.0007Z

I never actually saw the Amiga version. I have a hilarious cracking story for the Commodore 64 version of Karateka -- I spent about a week putting in really nasty protections that probably bought me 3 weeks of additional protection. I am glad that we've entered the era of openness. Glad we're both here doing this now.