Computers

Computers: Private Data

2008-08-20T09:22:44.0012Z

Thanks very much for your help on both counts.

Computers: Private Data

2008-08-19T14:08:48.0013Z

Short answer: no. Freebase is a data commons. All data in it is publicly available. Some of it is harder to find than others (such as unpublished domains) but anything in Freebase can be found with the right query.

While the data in Freebase is licensed under a few different open data licenses, the software underlying the site is currently the proprietary property of Metaweb Technologies. Currently, we are focused exclusively on building the data commons; it is possible that private metawebs will be available at some point in the future, but for now, it’s all about the Freebase commons.

Computers: Private Data

2008-08-19T11:54:34.0017Z

I really love the Freebase data model. As well as contributing to the public data, I would also love to use it to log and organise my private data i.e. contacts, account numbers. Is it possible to create a domain that is viewable only to myself? Or alternatively, can the Freebase software be downloaded for personal use?

Piggy Market Squeak: free fiancial tools

2008-08-19T01:17:14.0005Z

There are few free working financial tools around.

I think that Piggy Market Squeak is one of them and therefore should be supported.

History of a Day: Site does not work

2008-08-18T15:35:53.0060Z

Rob, I am copying this discussion over to Jack’s user account. The app is over a year old, and it is possible that changes to our data model or API since then have meant that the app requires some changes.

History of a Day: Site does not work

2008-08-17T21:00:18.0010Z

I entered a long explanation once but wasnt a registered member and my entry got wiped out. In short now, the site reverses the years entered and no results get returned.

Lotus Domino: duplicate of "IBM Lotus Domino"

2008-08-17T03:35:34.0017Z

This page has no real content, and it is just a duplicate of the page "IBM Lotus Domino" that has decent content already.

Computers: How do I create a new table (at whatever level is appropriate)

2008-08-14T22:51:12.0012Z

No problem, Mark. Freebase is quite powerful, but modeling new kinds of information is correspondingly difficult. We’ve tried to make the UI easy to use, and are still working on that, but there is an irreducible complexity, if you will, to the actual modeling process. Testing software seems like an interesting and useful domain to model, so please do let us know if we can help, if and when you do come back, maybe with a posse at your back. (-:

Computers: How do I create a new table (at whatever level is appropriate)

2008-08-14T21:39:23.0012Z

Sorry I tried to say thanks for taking the time to help - but that didn't get added.

Computers: How do I create a new table (at whatever level is appropriate)

2008-08-14T20:10:14.0000Z

Honestly this turns out to be way more complicated than I had hoped. At this stage I will just create a google spreadsheet.

Computers: How do I save a view?

2008-08-13T21:23:03.0000Z

You can't actually save a view, per se -- you can only save a filter. E.g., if you filtered the view of your type for Domain Specific Language = "yes", you could save that. However, there is currently a work-around (although I doubt this was intentional and I can't promise that it will be around forever) -- if you click the "filter results" button, a field labeled "save view as" will appear; you can enter a name and save the view without actually running a filter. The saved view will then appear on your homepage (I think), and will have a stable URL.

Computers: How do I save a view?

2008-08-13T21:18:11.0012Z

Replied to related post in the Computers domain.

Computers: How do I create a new table (at whatever level is appropriate)

2008-08-13T21:16:06.0005Z

You seem to have mistaken Freebase for a relational database. (-:

I note that your new type is full of text-valued properties that really should expect other types. Take a look at the Software type, for instance; the “Compatible Operating Systems” property expects a Software Compatibility type that links which links the OS and the versions in a compound value type (CVT).

You would probably benefit from checking out the Creating Types and Properties help pages, particularly the Data Modeling Guide. I think this will help answer questions about the views, as well.

Computers: hidden properties on programming languages

2008-08-13T21:07:51.0012Z

bump!

Computers: How do I save a view?

2008-08-13T20:53:49.0005Z

I've created a type: http://www.freebase.com/type/view/user/mlevison/agile_software_development/functional_test_tools and wish to change the properties that visitors will see in the default case (i.e no image, etc). How can I achieve that?

The whole goal of this is to build a repository of "Functional test tools" that users can quickly scan to figure out which tool they need.

As it stands the default view is of no interest.

Confused in Ottawa

Computers: How do I create a new table (at whatever level is appropriate)

2008-08-13T18:52:32.0005Z

I'm trying to document the wide array of Agile Functional test tools, in a searchable form.

My first attempt at this: http://functionaltestingtools.pbwiki.com/FrontPage is bit of mess.

Do I add the tools as individual topics and just tag them with types?

If someone could just point me to a concrete example: i.e. Blackberry is a topic. and its types are XXX.

If I've got this figured out correctly I need to add a topic per tool and them create a view. Which leads to the problem how do I create topics and views?

Looking on this page "Computer Domain" I can't see any add link for either topic or view.

Concierge: changed the link to a functioning version of this app

2008-08-09T00:33:40.0017Z

%s/retail_location/business_location/g on all the files seemed to do the trick

Computers: hidden properties on programming languages

2008-08-07T22:49:28.0017Z

Hi all,

Programming languages have two hidden properties and I'm not sure why they're hidden: /computer/programming_language/introduced and /computer/programming_language/developers . Is this intentional? If not, can they be revealed?

Thanks,

Vishal

Archiportal: Links to related data

2008-08-07T00:27:46.0000Z

jcrosse, thanks for you interest. I maintain this app, now. I also uploaded all the Neutra houses into freebase (including dates and location information). If I understand what you are saying: the Kaufmann house is referenced in many books, magazines, newspapers, etc. and we could store this reference information in freebase as well. Right? I think that would be great.

The simple approach would be to have a flat document that's "attached" to the "topic" (in this case the Kaufman House) which just contains a list of references. As you said, it would be great to have that document "pop-up" when the user clicks on something in Archiportal.

A more sophisticated approach would be to have each reference be a structured item within freebase:

published work
page #
topic referenced

This would be more powerful in that one could perform a sophisticated database query like "show me all references to austrian architects from the New York Times" but it would be a lot more work, for sure.

What do you think? I'd be happy to help you with this.

Archiportal: Links to related data

2008-08-06T22:01:59.0005Z

I am an amateur architectural historian and find this site fascinating. I have created project databases and bibliographies for various architects and was wondering if this application could be used to link project specific material. As an example, Neutra was widely published and the Kaufmann House has over 400 items in its bibliography. Could a simple click on the Kaufmann or any other Neutra house automatically link up to its individual bibliography. This would be of great interest for researchers, historians, real estate sales people, and home owners. I envision eventually combining this with Zillow and architectural databases, bibliographies, building and safety records, and county assessors databases into something that could give you the complete history on any building in the country that you could access on your I-phone or car GPS while you are driving down the street. How do we make this happen? Are Zillowand/or Google already working on this?

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

Programming Language: Influences

2008-07-07T22:59:44.0005Z

There isn't really a way to restrict cotypes. So just as it is possible to type a programming language as an influence node, it is also possible to type a country as a disease. It's possible, of course, to create a list of mutually exclusive types like this and clean them after the fact, and there has been some work done in this regard, but there's no way to do it up front.

Programming Language: Influences

2008-07-06T04:22:21.0000Z

Shouldn't the "influence node" type be restricted to type of "person" in that case?

Programming Language: Influences

2008-07-02T18:09:29.0012Z

I think the "influence node" type is intended to be restricted to people, so it probably wouldn't make sense to use that type for programming languages.

Programming Language: Influences

2008-07-01T14:20:06.0005Z

Could the 'influences' and 'influenced by' properties be replaced by including the relevant types from the Influence domain?

Autocad: Duplicate Topic

2008-07-01T04:20:54.0000Z

yeah got it..... thanks...

Autocad: Duplicate Topic

2008-06-30T19:55:56.0012Z

You can set the merge flag from the same menu that you set the delete flag; a dialog box will ask you which topic you want to merge it with.

Autocad: Duplicate Topic

2008-06-30T19:16:48.0000Z

Sorry I am new to freebase. It's my mistake that I deleted it.
Will be careful in future. :)
Merging is ok with me. But how does one go about it.

Autocad: Duplicate Topic

2008-06-30T10:14:02.0012Z

Merge it if it’s a duplicate. This has a lot of useful file-format information associated with it; please don’t delete it!

Autocad: Duplicate Topic

2008-06-30T09:43:22.0005Z

This is an duplicate Topi. Another topic exists at http://www.freebase.com/view/en/autocad.

OpenBSD: OpenBSD is an open-source project and a music publisher

2008-06-27T23:10:41.0012Z

Ty Semaka has been designing posters, CD artwork, and T-shirts for the OpenBSD project. He has also been writing songs for the project. CDs of his music are distributed by the OpenBSD project, making them both a software project and a music publisher/record label.

The MusicBrainz data has "OpenBSD" as the musical group for this album, but I think it's more accurate to say that the album is by Ty Semaka and published/distributed by the OpenBSD project. In particular, I think the MusicBrainz data should be attached to the OpenBSD software project (which I've cotyped as a Record Label).

Computers: Protocol Providers provide

2008-06-27T22:27:30.0012Z

Hi, shouldn't the type Protocol Provider have a property for the protocol(s) the provider provides?

FTP: redundant?

2008-06-26T10:38:19.0000Z

Yeah, I think it should just be merged.

PDF: Redundant topic; see Portable Document Format

2008-06-25T05:45:30.0011Z

Theres a perfectly good topic at Portable Document Format so this topic should either be deleted or merged into Portable Document Format.

Software: Singular values for releases

2008-06-17T18:51:32.0012Z

Just editing the topic for "Mozilla Firefox" and noticed that the following properties of the "Software" type permit multiples but probably shouldn't:

* first released
* latest release
* latest release date

Any thoughts on making these singular?

Content License: Suggestion: Reciprocate database

2008-05-06T07:21:57.0012Z

If database is accepted, it would be nice if it was reciprocated with this type using a "Database(s) with this license" property (or something similar).

Computer Manufacturer/Brand: Computer lines?

2008-05-05T23:14:51.0007Z

I meant to type "rather than 'computer product line'".

Computer Manufacturer/Brand: Computer lines?

2008-05-05T23:12:21.0005Z

Why does the "computer lines" property have an expected type of "computer" rather than "computer line"?

Software: Operating systems as software

2008-04-21T16:28:11.0007Z

Hi Erik,

I think that Windows is more of a special case in this situation in that that distribution _is_ the software, more because of business reasons than technical ones. You are probably right that the additional type is unnecessary and I dont really have a use case to demonstrate otherwise, but I feel that this difference should be kept in mind in the event that someone has a legitimate use for a different type.

Thanks.

Software: Operating systems as software

2008-04-19T17:04:11.0007Z

depends, Ubuntu is a software distribution, while Linux is definitely a piece of software. I would also call Windows software. I think it is unnecessary to have a separate type for this kind of software.

Web browser: Rendering engine

2008-04-08T18:31:27.0007Z

Yet another oops! Renamed it to Layout Engine and HTML Layout Engine.

Web browser: Rendering engine

2008-04-08T18:29:15.0000Z

I just added the property Rendering Engine of a new type HTML Rendering Engine.

Computers: "File" type

2008-04-08T18:07:17.0007Z

Thanks for the reply. In order, then:

The cryptographic hash can be useful for a number of reasons. The first example that comes to mind is that it would allow for an application to be built which would hash a file and then query Freebase to see if it was catalogued, and in this way the user could get info about a file. So the hashes are more for the sake of identification than verifying integrity, though of course they serve that purpose as well. Too, many files that are released on the internet, including software,videos, and such, have an MD5 or CRC32 hash (or both, or more) listed with them, so it's the sort of information that is typically associated with files. Since hashes can be generated for all files, it seemed more appropriate to have it on the generic File type rather than more specific ones.

Regarding Contained Work, yes, the idea was definitely to allow anything to be contained in a file (indeed, there's no particular reason why the container must be a file). I demonstrated this by having pandp12.zip contain pandp12.txt which contains Pride and Prejudice. Actually, the text file probably should contain a particular edition of the book, now that I think of it. I'm not at all in love with the name, but it was the only thing I could think of at the time. I'll try to come up with something else.

I'd like to create a type for video files as well before I decalre File to be finished, to help me see if I've missed anything vital, but I feel like what I have is pretty stable.

Thanks again for the reply. If you've got any suggestions, or further questions, I'd be happy to hear them.

Web browser: Rendering engine

2008-04-08T16:23:44.0007Z

Great idea. Since this is a published user type, I will have to go bug the original author to add the rendering engine property to it.

Computers: "File" type

2008-04-08T16:21:17.0007Z

Hi Tracy.

Great work. I have a couple of questions/comments about the type schemas you have created.

From my point of view, not all files need a crypto hash. It definitely makes sense for files that will modify the system properties i.e. installers, os isos etc. and thus need to be verified as to their original content, however I am not quite sure I see the utility of having this information for, say plain text or pdf files. My guess would be that there are more 'pure content' (for lack of a better phrase) documents in the wild than installable softwares and programs for which the users need to be sure of the integrity of the content. Since you do plan on adding more specific filetypes, I would recommed adding the property for filetypes that generally have hashes released with them or for those filetypes that one can justify having associated hashes. If however you find that it is more convenient and useful to simply have the property in (in my experience it has been a bit hard to tell in the design phase) feel free to leave it in.

Also I was wondering as to the rationale behind having the contained work as another type? Wouldnt having a multi-valued property in the document itself (that pointed to the original work) work.If the rationale was to have an overarching type that allows you to embed any 'work' in an electronic 'container' it definitely makes sense. The name appears to be a bit ambiguous as the nature of containment and the container itself. Unfortunately I do not seem to have an alternate name for you, but that is something you might consider.

Once you are done with the schema development, please post back here and I will promote it to the main domain.

Thanks.

Web browser: Rendering engine

2008-04-08T01:53:24.0012Z

How about a rendering engine field? Perhaps to link to a rendering engine type.

Computers: "File" type

2008-04-05T02:00:25.0012Z

I've published seven types in my domain which are to be used for files. I described my aim in some detail here, but in short I want to be able to create topics for widely-distributed files.

To that end, I've created the File type, as well as Document File and Compressed File types which include it, and added a topic to each of the latter two to demonstrate their use (pandp12.txt and pandp12.zip, respectively). The several additional types I've created are used in those as well.

Other types will need to be created for e.g. video files or audio files, but it will take me a bit more research before I feel like I can adequately model those. I'd like a little preliminary feedback on the types I've created so far. In particular, did I include too many or too few properties, and did I model them correctly? Are my types Cryptographic Hash and Contained Work appropriate?

Operating System: OS or distribution?

2008-04-02T23:09:59.0000Z

If you add the software type on them, you can set the 'Software genre' to 'Linux distribution'.

Really, shouldn't all operating systems have the Software type as well? And then we could remove Developer, Release Date and Version Number from this schema and just keep that data in the software schema instead.

Software Developer: Software Developer should have Person as an included type

2008-03-07T09:10:31.0007Z

Nevermind. I can't read...