{"id":221,"date":"2009-08-28T12:14:44","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T17:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/?p=221"},"modified":"2015-07-23T01:19:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T01:19:32","slug":"building-with-freebase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"Building with Freebase"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Freebase from Metaweb<\/p><\/div><\/i> I had a unique opportunity to attend a presentation put on by The New York Semantic Web Meetup called Content, Identifiers and Freebase<\/a> from Metaweb about ways to use Freebase. I’ll use organizer Marco Newmann’s words to describe Freebase: <\/p>\n

“Freebase is a community managed database for knowledge about the world. Information in Freebase is organized as a web of facts, which can be systematically retrieved.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So get this: Someone else stores and maintains the data, and you get to use it. This is a great resource for building applications or as a repository to supplement content projects.<\/p>\n

As I had covered back in June, I am itching to build something using these resources, and last night may have given me a little more inspiration. For help I’ll look to pick up Jaime Taylor’s new book “Programming the Semantic Web<\/a>“. Jaime Taylor presented a mix of high-level application ideas along with some code samples to show how it works, both the ease and flexibility of accessing data. Robert Cook, the co-founder of Metaweb Technologies, covered aspects about how we can use the Freebase database, including usage allowances (100k queries\/day), the Creative Commons licensing requirements, and how we can upload and maintain Freebase data<\/p>\n

I can already think of a great semantic search application that can be built with already available data — so if you are that client I spoke to last week — call me fast this is a home run, or I’m building it myself!<\/p>\n

Like I said: It makes you want to start building. Great presentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Informative presentation from the people at Metaweb about building applications using Freebase their open, community-managed database.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[65,83,87,100,126,130],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}