Type/domain equivalent topic

Sport: Championships

2008-08-19T15:47:42.0032Z

I added his Masters Tournament wins in here. As a result, he was typed as a sports team. Is there a better way to enter in individual sports championships?

Transport: Types of Transport

2008-06-04T02:25:26.0012Z

I suggest that types be added corresponding to the 'Aspects' of transport in the article, for example 'Transport Vehicle' which would include cars & bikes. 'Transport Infrastructure' would be a better name for the current 'Transportation' which is now all about roadways etc.

Hope this makes sense - I'm new here.

File format: delete me?

2008-05-12T18:28:09.0007Z

I agree that this topic should not be deleted.

Ed, there's a bug for the behavior you saw. Currently, only administrators of a domain can specify domain/type equivalent topics to that domain.

File format: delete me?

2008-05-12T15:47:40.0007Z

There is a Type/Domain equivalent type to link types and domains with topics. You never know, someone may want to link this topic to other topics, which can't be done for types.

I removed the "File format" type from this topic and added the "Type/Domain equivalent" type. Unfortunately, I received this error when I tried to list the "File format" type as equivalent to this topic:

"You do not have permission to do this."

File format: delete me?

2008-05-12T02:07:38.0005Z

There is already a "file format" type, I'm don't think it needs to be its own topic as well.

Person: What happened to this topic? http://www.freebase.com/view/person

2007-12-28T18:12:41.0000Z

It looks like someone changed the topic "Person" to "Katie Laird". I've fixed most of the changes, but I'm not sure how (if) we can restore the Wikipedia blurb.

Person: What happened to this topic? http://www.freebase.com/view/person

2007-12-27T03:07:56.0012Z

Uhm, "http://www.freebase.com/view/person" is Katie Laird? What happened to this page?

Author: Author order

2007-12-14T09:25:40.0000Z

Would it be possible to add authors to the bottom of the list instead of the top? Because English speakers read from left to right, the authors are typically entered from first to last. Entering them this way requires that they alway be reordered. I've started entering them backwards but it's kind of a pain to keep track when there are a lot of authors.

Author: Author order

2007-12-11T01:48:09.0000Z

Sweet. Thanks!

Author: Author order

2007-12-10T23:30:16.0000Z

Spatialed, there is a way to do that. You can add the authors in any order, then click on the little thing beside "author" and choose the option to rearrange the order. See also this help topic: Reordering a list.

Color: Color as a type

2007-12-10T20:15:51.0007Z

Sounds good. I'll try this out on sandbox and post a note for review. While I'm at it, I'll add a property for "hex triplet" too. For anyone else reading this post, the color type is at http://www.freebase.com/view/visual_art/color.

Color: Color as a type

2007-12-09T06:40:12.0012Z

This should probably be a type with properties that include wavelength, rgb values, etc.

Author: Author order

2007-12-08T04:53:31.0012Z

There should be a way to keep track of the author order if a publication was authored by multiple people.

Location: More Location fields

2007-12-07T00:44:15.0000Z

In terms of resources the searchable Help Center contains quite a bit of documentation, where new information is constantly being added. The Developer/Apps page is another good place to look. If your particular question isn't answered in either places, there is a developer mailing list you can subscribe to or search its archives (Apps page). Or simply post a discussion on Freebase.

Now, when it comes to location modeling we don't currently have a property for saying "A is contained by the combined area of B and C", but you can indicate that a location that contains both B and C also contains A. For example, the Golden Gate National Recreational Area covers the Presidio (San Francisco), the Alcatraz, has trails in Marin, etc. So it's contained by neither San Francisco nor Marin. But AFAIK it doesn't go beyond the boundaries of the San Francisco Bay Area, so I can say that it contains the GGNRA.

On the other hand, I can say that the Presidio is contained by both San Francisco and the GGNRA. That's fine.

Location: More Location fields

2007-12-07T00:08:40.0007Z

Thanks. Using F8 is a neat option. Where can I learn more about this and similar capabilities?

BTW: I like the "contained by" property. It sure is flexible. So for example, if I wanted to define the location of some thing as occurring within 2 overlapping areas, such as a state and an ecoregion, I'm guessing I should give the type for that thing 2 location properties. This is essentially an AND situation.

What if the thing occurs within both locations (an OR situation)? Queries would be easy if I added a bunch of location properties, but how would I differentiate the attribution of AND, OR, XOR, NOT, etc. location properties?

Location: More Location fields

2007-12-06T23:15:50.0007Z

That was because you probably hadn't done a write for a while and your cookie was older than Jeff's post. Now that you've written a post, your cookie should've been updated. Try again. The next time it happens, you can resolve it by either doing a write, or hit F8 to get the Dev Tools bar at the bottom of the browser, and click on the "Refresh cache" link.

Location: More Location fields

2007-12-06T22:54:59.0007Z

I see the response summary:

jeff
"There are analogs for pretty much all the important fields in the Topical Gazetteer in the location..."

But the full text of the response is not showing in the discussion.

Location: More Location fields

2007-12-06T22:17:57.0007Z

There are analogs for pretty much all the important fields in the Topical Gazetteer in the location schemata. The "state" and "county" values can be entered using the "contained by" property.

Location: More Location fields

2007-12-05T21:41:39.0005Z

Great. Can you add some of the most important fields from the Topical Gazetteer to Location so that users can attribute locations now, which will save you time from reconciling new data? It would be especially helpful if you could do it in ways that can be linked to the Gazetteer locations even if users don't know Lat Long and other techy referencing systems? For example, country could serve to limit provinces, provinces could serve to limit sub-provinces (e.g., counties), etc. As long as the users defined the location from coarse to precise, it should be relatively easy to pinpoint a location through a series of queries within the hierarchical USGS framework.

Location: Geospatial Standards

2007-12-05T18:30:41.0007Z

Spatialed -

In fact much of the current US city/town location information came from the USGS Concise Topical Gazetteer. We have been working on reconciling Wikipedia locations with the remainder of the Concise Gazetteer and when all those Topics have been property merged we would like to drop in the majority (if not all) of the Populated Places Gazetteer and work our way up to the All Names Gazetteer.

Ultimately would like to have the features covered in both the USBGN and GNS feature lists, but again we are still working through reconciliation with the data that already exists in Freebase.

J

Location: Geospatial Standards

2007-12-05T05:19:29.0012Z

There has been a lot of work on geospatial standards for describing locations. This has resulted in huge tables that could be imported directly into Freebase so that people don't need to start from scratch. For example, the USGS files here: http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/download_data.htm could (should!) be used as standards for describing all named features (e.g., states, cities, rivers) in the U.S. The tables also contain coordinates that can be used for mapping applications. Do you plan to incorporate these and the many other existing standards into Freebase?

Cycling: Cycling and Cycling

2007-11-15T00:09:58.0007Z

We've got two models that are close for this, but probably not probably exactly right for the Olympic games. I'd suggest you have a look at sports league season and sports championship event as a model. Sports championship event is probably closer to being the right schema, but it is tailored towards representing an event between two sports teams. It appears that this schema should either be made more general or better renamed to indicate its scope.

If you're inspired, you could try creating a model for Olympic games in your personal domain space.

Cycling: Cycling and Cycling

2007-11-09T08:21:44.0000Z

okay i see, but what a about different occurences of one thing, eg. olympic games and summer olympic games, winter olympic games, olympic games 2000, olympic games 2004 and all the other years. how do you modell this correctly?

Cycling: Cycling and Cycling

2007-11-08T18:23:48.0007Z

What you're trying to do, it seems, is associate the article on cycling with your type? Types and topics can't be the same object in Freebase.

Try adding this type http://www.freebase.com/view/freebase/equivalent_topic to the cycling topic. You can then create a link from the topic to your cycling type.

Cycling: Cycling and Cycling

2007-11-08T17:58:37.0012Z

Why can't I merge http://www.freebase.com/view/cycling and http://www.freebase.com/view/user/skurt/default_domain/cycling?

Blog: Brad founded LiveJournal

2007-10-31T12:32:39.0005Z

Brad is considered to be one of the big forces behind blogging's rise in popularity so I don't think the picture is misplaced (probably not the most appropriate picture possible though).