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| View the developer toolbar | Freebase Documentation | Developer |
To view the developer toolbar, click F8 while viewing any Freebase page, then scroll to the bottom of the page. You will see all kinds of useful information and links to some handy pages for expert users.
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| Perform transitive queries | Freebase Documentation | Developer |
Let's say you want to find all the Freebase users who live in the USA, but they have their locations set to things like "San Francisco" or "New Orleans". How do you ask for "USA, and anything within the USA"? ...
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| Avoid caching problems when using the API | Freebase Documentation | Developer |
Imagine a situation where you have an application that's doing the same mqlread over and over, and meanwhile someone else is changing the data, for instance via the Freebase.com UI or via another application. Your app won't pick up those data...
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| How to Add Other Administrators to a Domain | Freebase Documentation |
Let's say you want to collaborate with another Freebase user on designing a domain/type in your user area. If you go to the domain's page, click F8 to view the developer tools, then use the Admin View link, you’ll see that the domain has...
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| Guids Are Faster than IDs | Freebase Documentation | Developer |
Freebase ids and guids are both unambiguous ways of referencing topics in Freebase. If you're running queries which return a large number of values and you'd like to get a key to reference them by, asking for guid rather than the id can be...
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| How to monitor schema changes | Freebase Documentation |
If your application depends on specific freebase schema you should subscribe to the developers@freebase.com and data-modeling mailing lists. Metaweb sends advanced notice of system schema changes to one or both of those lists.
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| Handle generalized dates | Freebase Documentation | Developer |
In the graph we can represent the date as 2007, 2007-10, 2007-10-03, etc..technically these dates are UTC.Unfortunately when this gets loaded into a Javascript object in the browser, it gets converted to an absolute time (like Jan 1, 2007 at 0:00UTC...
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| Keep up with Freebase discussions | Freebase Documentation | General |
1. WATCHED DISCUSSIONS In any discussion page, there is an option to "Watch this discussion". By clicking on this, the discussion will show up on your homepage, and you will see new posts. 2. RSS FEEDS All discussions have...
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| Explicitly specify name or id | Freebase Documentation | Developer |
When asked to display a simple string form of a property value, MQL has some rules that it follows.
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| Creating Types and Properties | Help Topic | Data modeling | ||
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| Beginner's Guide: Creating Schemas | Help Topic | Data modeling |
So you want to design a data schema on Freebase? Perhaps you have a topic you're passionate about and want it to be included here, or perhaps you have come up with some improvements to our existing schemas and would like to try them out. ...
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This document is intended for Freebase users who would like to develop new data models by creating new types and properties. Although the Freebase application makes it a lot easier to create and maintain types,...
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| Guide to Freebase Types | Help Topic | Data modeling |
Types aren't one-size-fits-all; in fact, there are several different kinds of types you can create and use in Freebase, depending on how you want users to enter information for their properties, or how you want them to relate...
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| How to Retrieve the Wikipedia URL for an Object with a GUID | Freebase Documentation |
Wikipedia URLs are created automatically by substituting the /wikipedia/en_id key of the topic into the following URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=8980330 ... where 8980330 is the /wikipedia/en_id key. You can...
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