Freebase: Discussion about Domain Administrator

Government: leg session <-->> legislation

2008-11-21T02:19:15.0000Z

Do we have a type for a piece of legislation yet? I agree that a link to a legislative session would be good - I'm not sure what other properties it needs. Maybe "status" (accepted/rejected) and some way of keeping track of its history?

American football: Suggested properties for 'Football coach'

2008-11-20T22:20:39.0012Z

Looks great to me. Thanks!

American football: Head Coach

2008-11-20T17:00:56.0005Z

If I could make a suggestion, though, it might make more sense to have just a list of head coaches instead of making one the current head coach. It'd be much easier to update when a coaching change has happened and would make the data more consistent across types.

American football: Head Coach

2008-11-20T14:30:30.0000Z

Nice! Thank you.

Film: expected type - films produced

2008-11-20T04:50:01.0012Z

It does now - because Robert added it for me today. The reciprocal property connectione for production comany/films produced wasn't there until this afternoon - but I'm forever grateful!

Film: expected type - films produced

2008-11-20T01:31:24.0012Z

Doesn't it have it? Called Films? HBO has a production company type with a films property.

American football: Head Coach

2008-11-20T01:10:08.0012Z

This has been added. See Vince Lombardi or the Green Bay Packers. Cheers.

American football: Suggested properties for 'Football coach'

2008-11-20T01:02:49.0012Z

OK, I've updated the schema. Have a look. Here's an example using Vince Lombardi

Film: Film Location List Uploader - Ability to add flims with film locations

2008-11-19T21:24:15.0028Z

You can do this on a location-by-location basis. That is, you can use the list importer for the "featured in films" property on a filming location, but you can only do it (so far as I know), one location at a time.

Chemistry: More Suggestions

2008-11-19T18:01:22.0012Z

Most of those properties are on the chemical compound type, I believe.

Chemistry: More Suggestions

2008-11-19T17:56:00.0018Z

Hi,

Might I suggest we add all the properties found on Wikipedia such as heat of vaporization etc. Would it be possible to automatically import all the data, too?

Cheers.

Film: Film Location List Uploader - Ability to add flims with film locations

2008-11-19T17:11:32.0017Z

I have been trying to upload lists of filming locations. I have lists of a lot of different cities in the United states that I would like to upload but when I use the list uploader for FIlming location, I have no option to add the flims shot in those locations as well. Can this be added or is there some way, currently, for me to do this.

Publishing: type for magazine genre

2008-11-19T12:48:31.0012Z

thanks!

Publishing: type for magazine genre

2008-11-19T05:17:11.0012Z

Good idea. I've added the property and type.

Publishing: type for magazine genre

2008-11-18T06:53:16.0017Z

i don't see a place to ID magazine genre - can we set up a type?

Film: expected type - films produced

2008-11-18T05:01:01.0018Z

shouldn't the fil/production_company type have an expected property of films_produced? would make my life easier ;)

Freebase: Profile RSS Feed

2008-11-17T21:12:09.0018Z

Hi all,

Congrats about a great product your building here, it ~~could~~ will change the way we find information online. I'll definetly be spreading the word about it over here in the UK dont you worry! and I'm certainly pretty excited to see how it evolves over time.

While playing around, I've noticed that the RSS Feed for my profile page doesnt seem to be working:

http://www.freebase.com/feed/newsfeed/profile/user/simonturner

Be handy to have. Is this a one of bug, or is it something thats a work in progress? Also I had a little trouble tracking down the Freebase Discussion Forum and actually had to resort to a google search lol. How do you normally browse to it, just wondering if it should be a little more prominent.

My Exercises base is comming along nicely, but there's still lots to do. I've pretty much tapped into all the data that was fead in from Wikipedia, so the next step is going to be to start created some fresh content.

Cheers,

Simon

Physical Geography: Lake inflow, outflow

2008-11-17T19:19:33.0012Z

It would be nice to eventually map these descriptions to FGDC metadata standards. Here is a link to the technical details of the National Hydrography Dataset for reference:
http://nhd.usgs.gov/techref.html
In particular: http://nhd.usgs.gov/chapter1/index.html

-Ed

American football: Suggested properties for 'Football coach'

2008-11-17T17:45:51.0012Z

I'm working on it - have run into a bit of a bug with schema editor - hoping to have it resolved and have these properties within the week.

Physical Geography: Lake inflow, outflow

2008-11-17T17:30:34.0012Z

DA-497 is the bug tracking this issue.

American football: Suggested properties for 'Football coach'

2008-11-17T17:16:56.0012Z

Just took a look at basketball coach. I'd be fine with including things like wins and losses, but I imagine that with how frequently those numbers can change, they're going to be inaccurate more often than not (at least for now). Based on what you've seen, how has that worked out for basketball coach?

Great point about modeling the coaching position in both the current and former team properties. That makes a lot of sense.

Physical Geography: Lake inflow, outflow

2008-11-16T00:59:35.0012Z

OK. Go for it. Let me know when you've done it and I'll map the WP template attributes.

American football: Suggested properties for 'Football coach'

2008-11-15T22:51:51.0012Z

this sounds great...when can we expect to see these properties become available?

Broadcast: Frequency

2008-11-15T21:33:09.0018Z

I think this type should include the frequency of the station, as a decimal number I think.

Physical Geography: Lake inflow, outflow

2008-11-14T19:45:50.0012Z

As I look at this, this should be fairly straightforward -- all instances of "Lake in-/outflow" are also bodies of water (or should be), so we should be able to change the expected type without otherwise affecting the data.

Physical Geography: Lake inflow, outflow

2008-11-14T19:39:01.0000Z

Would you want the "body of water" type to reciprocate the properties?

Physical Geography: Lake inflow, outflow

2008-11-13T00:40:03.0012Z

All I can think of is that it was supposed to (somehow) connect inflows with river mouths and outflows with river sources, but failed utterly to do so. Scrapping it seems like a good idea.

Physical Geography: Lake inflow, outflow

2008-11-12T22:55:53.0035Z

There are two wikipedia infobox lake attributes that could be loaded, but the current schema for lake is a bit questionable. Currently there are two properties:

Inflow source(s)

Outflow location

http://www.mjtemplate.org/examples/schemas/type.html?id=/geography/lake&mjt.server=http://www.freebase.com

Which point to the really puzzling type "Lake in-/outflow":

http://www.mjtemplate.org/examples/schemas/type.html?id=/geography/lake_in_outflow&mjt.server=http://www.freebase.com

I'm wondering if we could deprecate those two properties as there are only 18 instances of the combined "Lake in-/outflow".

Inflow bodies of water

Outflow body of water

Both would expect the type "Body of water".

If we make this change, I can load 1710 inflows and 1987 outflows.

American football: Suggested properties for 'Football coach'

2008-11-12T18:55:37.0012Z

Sure, this makes sense. You can have a look at basketball coach to see how its modeled there. If we want to be explicit about the position (versus just tracking head coaches) - we should think about whether we want to model that in both the current and former team properties.

Government: leg session <-->> legislation

2008-11-09T00:58:23.0018Z

I have views of the CA state legislative database. One can link many pieces of legislation to a legislative sesssion....

Eg:

CA Session 07-08:

AB 1, AB 2, SB 11, SB 100, SBX1_11, etc....