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    Billionaires

    4 posts, latest post: robert, Nov 18, 2008
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    1. narphorium
      Nov 17, 2008
      narphorium says:

      Hi Robert,

      I just finished loading some billionaires into my Wealthy Person type and I did a quick search of Freebase and turned up your new Billionaires base.  Would you be interested in collaborating on this data? I planned on using the Wealthy Person type to model notable millionaires as well but billionaires could easily be shown as a saved view.

      2. robert
        Nov 17, 2008
        robert says:

        You've done the model right, I think, so I'll defer to you.  I have a spreadsheet of more people from the March 2008 Forbes list, but I'm not sure it will add much to what you already have.

        What I like about this is I can now create billionaire lists in my existing bases.

      3. narphorium
        Nov 18, 2008
        narphorium says:

        Thanks. The data that I loaded was mostly Forbes data from Wikipedia (which makes it easier to reconcile). However, Wikipedia only lists the top 100 from 2008 so if you have the full list it would be great to have that loaded as well.

      4. robert
        Nov 18, 2008
        robert says:

        OK.  I'll see what I can do.


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    Is this image copyright free?

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    7 posts, latest post: skud, Aug 29, 2008
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      Aug 28, 2008
      benjaminhill says:
      Looks similar to the corporate stock photo, so I wanted to double-check the copyright status. Thanks!
      2. skud
        Aug 28, 2008
        skud says:
        I suspect it was uploaded under the terms of fair use, but for some reason the image page doesn't say so.  I'll check with the guy who uploaded it (I'm copying his user profile on this thread.)
      3. Aug 28, 2008
        benjaminhill says:
        Thank you for looking into it!  Fair use for me is a bit different than copyright free (or some CC flavor) because it would impact the commercial use possibilities.
      4. skud
        Aug 29, 2008
        skud says:
        Yup, that's certainly true.  If you're looking for stuff that's absolutely OK for commercial use, I suggest you use a MQL query to look into the license on an image, and limit it to those which have licenses that fit for your purposes (i.e. PD, CC-BY, or whatever).  I can help you with that if you're unfamiliar with how to do it.
      5. Aug 29, 2008
        benjaminhill says:
        Totally unfamiliar, but I do know other similar languages, so if you had an example that was close, I could disect and repurpose it.  Thank you!
      6. crism
        Aug 29, 2008
        crism says:

        There are examples and documentation in the help center. If you only need to look at a couple of images, you can do it manually; the licensed pictures have a little license icon at the bottom. Unfortunately, some of the older images (like this one) were loaded before we required a license assertion for each one.

        If you are loading many images at once, I would imagine that your application would require some other MQL usage anyway just to find them.

      7. skud
        Aug 29, 2008
        skud says:

        benjamin, here are two queries I threw together yesterday which might help you.

         The first one gets a bunch of topics and any images associated with them, then tells you the license those images are under:

         

        [
         {
           "/common/topic/image" : [
             {
               "/common/licensed_object/license" : [],
               "id" : null,
               "name" : null
             }
           ],
           "id" : null,
           "limit" : 20,
           "name" : null,
           "type" : "/people/person"
         }
        ]

        This second one is roughly the same, but excludes licenses of a certain type -- in this case Fair Use:

        [
         {
           "/common/topic/image" : [
             {
               "/common/licensed_object/license" : [
                 {
                   "id" : null,
                   "name" : null
                 }
               ],
               "id" : null,
               "name" : null,
               "nofu:/common/licensed_object/license" : [
                 {
                   "id" : "/en/fair_use",
                   "optional" : "forbidden"
                 }
               ]
             }
           ],
           "id" : null,
           "limit" : 20,
           "name" : null,
           "type" : "/people/person"
         }
        ]


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    Concert Hall

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    5 posts, latest post: carmenmfenn1, Aug 28, 2008
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    1. carmenmfenn1
      Aug 28, 2008
      carmenmfenn1 says:

      Cris,

      we need the "Concert Hall" Type and a list of concert halls, please. There are practically hundreds of them in the world

      2. crism
        Aug 28, 2008
        crism says:
        Take a look at Micah’s draft Performance Venue type and Robert’s draft Performance venue as well. A concert hall is a kind of performance venue; what additional properties would it need that these Performance venue types don’t have?
      3. carmenmfenn1
        Aug 28, 2008
        carmenmfenn1 says:
        I am not thinking of any new properties, I only need the list at the moment
      4. crism
        Aug 28, 2008
        crism says:
        Go ahead and create a type in your own domain, then, as a prototype. We have generally eschewed types in the Commons that have no properties, but it is possible that your type will evolve. I would recommend that you include Structure and Location in your type.
      5. carmenmfenn1
        Aug 28, 2008
        carmenmfenn1 says:
        Ok, thank you

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    Loved D/Generation Game - Thanks Robert!

    2 posts, latest post: robert, Jul 23, 2007
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    1. thadguidry
      Jul 20, 2007
      thadguidry says:

      I used to play D/Generation on the Amiga 500 I think and also PC version ? Never got past level 16, damn droids! I wonder if Danny ever got that far ? hahaha. I was part of the Cracking Group for it as well, back in the day. (I did buy a personal copy, however!) My how times change for us, eh ? Here we are building Freebase together...

      2. robert
        Jul 23, 2007
        robert says:

        I never actually saw the Amiga version. I have a hilarious cracking story for the Commodore 64 version of Karateka -- I spent about a week putting in really nasty protections that probably bought me 3 weeks of additional protection. I am glad that we've entered the era of openness. Glad we're both here doing this now.


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    Software: Protocol

    3 posts, latest post: aseem, Jun 28, 2007
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      Jun 28, 2007
      mm_aa says:

      robert,

      Could you please fix software category and remove protocol from general software? It looks like communication software should be used for this.

      2. robert
        Jun 28, 2007
        robert says:

        Mike -- I'm not sure which types you're talking about.

        2. aseem
          Jun 28, 2007
          aseem says:

          I believe he's talking about /computer/software
          http://www.freebase.com/view/schema?id=%2Fcomputer%2Fsoftware

          I looked at it and I am not sure what the purpose of both the protocol fields in that type is. I can sort of understand that a large number of software applications (except purely desktop applications with no auto-update like feature) do communicate with external applications and machines in some way, however in a lot of cases IMO its not quite proper to categorize non-communications software with communications software.


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    Thanks

    3 posts, latest post: robert, May 29, 2007
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    1. seanabrahams
      May 28, 2007
      seanabrahams says:

      Thanks for the welcome Robert. It's good to know there is some efforts for community fostering taking place. Let the warped mine convention commence! Cheers :-).

      2. seanabrahams
        May 28, 2007
        seanabrahams says:

        Of course, I mean to say "mind", not "mine". Where's the edit button?

        2. robert
          May 29, 2007
          robert says:

          We have the 'edit my own discussion' feature request in the queue.


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    Scientific Classification infobox load

    4 posts, latest post: frakilk, May 10, 2007
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    1. frakilk
      May 9, 2007
      frakilk says:

      Hi Robert,

      Is there any chance of performing a "Scientific Classification" infobox load in the near future? This would cover a massive area of data which is largely overlooked at present. I am planning a tool to browse through the Plant Kingdom. I'm sure others would find the data really useful too.

      An example of the infobox can be seen here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily

      Kind regards,
      // Frank

      2. robert
        May 10, 2007
        robert says:

        Frank - We're putting some very deep thought into how to model species taxonomies. Wikipedia infoboxes do a pretty good job, but may not hold up well for the many purposes they might be used.

        JG is working on this now and I'm not sure of the ETA. We would love to help you build a browser tool. I'll rope him into this conversation.

      3. jg
        May 10, 2007
        jg says:

        Frank,
        Yes, we plan to type 300,000+ items including all the wikipedia plants soon.
        There is some debate about whether to start with ITIS or NIH Taxo etc.
        It will be resolved in 1-2 weeks and the data should be available then.

      4. frakilk
        May 10, 2007
        frakilk says:

        Thanks Robert and Jg, I'm so very pleased to here this. I definitely understand that adding this data is not a trivial matter and appreciate all the hard work you guys are doing.

        I'll keep a lookout for the new items and brush up on my MQL skills.


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    How to add a type to Finance?

    2 posts, latest post: robert, May 3, 2007
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      May 2, 2007
      jasonc says:

      Hello, just learning how to add things here.

      I want to create a top level type within Finance, an area you administer. The proposed type is "Index" (or Sector, or both), to hold the typical financial groups of companies (SP500 etc). It was not clear to me how to create something at that level (lower down is easy enough).

      2. robert
        May 3, 2007
        robert says:

        Jason - do you just want to hold companies? Is this a securities index you want or do you ultimately want indices for other kinds of things such as bonds? Also, companies may have multiple issues.

        My question is, what's your goal with the type?


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    Date entry

    2 posts, latest post: robert, May 1, 2007
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      Apr 30, 2007
      weel says:

      About the date entry thing: yes, I enter one thing, and something else shows up. Then I try to figure out what the relationship between the two is, correct for that, and something else shows up that is different from what I typed in in a different way than it was last time.