Comments on: Freebase – Database for world knowledge/data http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/10/02/freebase-database-for-world-knowledgedata/ Knowledge is Scrumptious Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:13:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anonymous http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/10/02/freebase-database-for-world-knowledgedata/comment-page-1/#comment-781 Anonymous Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:04:00 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/10/02/freebase-database-for-world-knowledgedata/#comment-781 Vamsi, Thanks for the example and the comparison between google base and freebase.you saved me some research time -Sukumar Vamsi,

Thanks for the example and the comparison between google base and freebase.you saved me some research time -Sukumar

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/10/02/freebase-database-for-world-knowledgedata/comment-page-1/#comment-780 Anonymous Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:15:00 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/10/02/freebase-database-for-world-knowledgedata/#comment-780 From the FAQ <strong>How’s Freebase different from Wikipedia? From Google Base?</strong> Wikipedia and Freebase both appeal to people who love to use and organize information. The difference lies in the way they store information. Wikipedia arranges information in the form of articles. Freebase lists facts and statistics. Freebase’s list form is good not only for people who like to glance at facts, but also for people who want to use the data to build other web sites and software. Information in article form can’t be reused in the same way (though, obviously, articles are awesome for other purposes). In addition, the topics covered by Freebase include subjects that are too obscure for Wikipedia, which strives for notability appropriate to an encyclopedia. Google Base is a whole ‘nother ball of wax. The data in Freebase is all shared and collectively editable, with a single instance of each topic (as described in Question 1). Google Base, on the other hand, lets you help other people find your data, but it doesn’t provide a community editing tool nor does it attempt to reconcile data sets. It's a different animal. From the FAQ

How’s Freebase different from Wikipedia? From Google Base?

Wikipedia and Freebase both appeal to people who love to use and organize information. The difference lies in the way they store information. Wikipedia arranges information in the form of articles. Freebase lists facts and statistics. Freebase’s list form is good not only for people who like to glance at facts, but also for people who want to use the data to build other web sites and software. Information in article form can’t be reused in the same way (though, obviously, articles are awesome for other purposes).

In addition, the topics covered by Freebase include subjects that are too obscure for Wikipedia, which strives for notability appropriate to an encyclopedia.

Google Base is a whole ‘nother ball of wax. The data in Freebase is all shared and collectively editable, with a single instance of each topic (as described in Question 1). Google Base, on the other hand, lets you help other people find your data, but it doesn’t provide a community editing tool nor does it attempt to reconcile data sets. It’s a different animal.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/10/02/freebase-database-for-world-knowledgedata/comment-page-1/#comment-779 Anonymous Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:10:00 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/10/02/freebase-database-for-world-knowledgedata/#comment-779 Google base is very interesting. I submitted my favorite recipe <a href="http://surrealimage.blogspot.com/2005_11_01_archive.html" rel="nofollow">Majjiga Pulusu</a> from my <a href="http://surrealimage.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">blog </a>. Let me see if it becomes search able from Google Base within 1 hour. Google base is very interesting. I submitted my favorite recipe Majjiga Pulusu from my blog . Let me see if it becomes search able from Google Base within 1 hour.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/10/02/freebase-database-for-world-knowledgedata/comment-page-1/#comment-778 Anonymous Tue, 09 Oct 2007 04:32:00 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/10/02/freebase-database-for-world-knowledgedata/#comment-778 Thanks Ganesh.makes sense. In that case I need to understand how it differs from google base. -sukumar Thanks Ganesh.makes sense. In that case I need to understand how it differs from google base. -sukumar

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/10/02/freebase-database-for-world-knowledgedata/comment-page-1/#comment-777 Anonymous Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:32:00 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/10/02/freebase-database-for-world-knowledgedata/#comment-777 Sukumar, Information is built up over time by you and me just like wikipedia. Reference and cross references amongst topics would have to be done by you and me. Since, most of content out there does not have meta-data (via RDF etc.), we have to specify the meta-data via content types and then perform the association between topics. At least that is how I think it works. Ganesh Sukumar,

Information is built up over time by you and me just like wikipedia. Reference and cross references amongst topics would have to be done by you and me. Since, most of content out there does not have meta-data (via RDF etc.), we have to specify the meta-data via content types and then perform the association between topics.

At least that is how I think it works.

Ganesh

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