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Desired Application list
List started by
robert
for the Freebase domain
Share ideas for new Freebase-enabled applications. Post an idea or grab one of them and make it your own.
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| Web Link Import Tool |
A browser tool to make it easy to add new webpage topics. Something like a bookmarking/tagging tool without links to users.
- take the url of the current page and create a Metaweb webpage topic if it doesn't exist
- navigate to the Metaweb...
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| Generic GIS App |
See the architecture GIS app. Couldn't we build a framework for all kinds of location based apps? That said: I think if you ask Alec (who created our filter app) he would say creating something that filters on a small number of very specific...
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| Photo Gallery |
Create a generic photo gallery that supports:
- Display image properties and topics linked to each photo
- Filter by any property of type image and,
-- user (uploaded by)
-- images linked to topics of specific types (person, building)
-- images...
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| Comparison tool |
Simple table of topics with property values.
Features:
- User autocompletes to select a type in row1:column1
-- property names are populated in the first column in index order
- User autocompletes to select a topic in other columns of row...
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| Wikipedia page relationships |
Freebase has topics for many links embedded in Wikipedia articles. We could use a tool to display Wikipedia articles and provide a simple widget for adding related topics to a specific property. Given a specific topic the tool could:display a list...
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| Family Tree Viewer |
Ideally this would allow people to graphically view and edit family trees in the manner of the very cool application at
geni.com
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| Freebase to RDF proxy | Freebase Application |
Simple - a proxy to turn Freebase's data in to RDF.
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| Voting or rating |
Allow users to vote for data items and to rate the data items. In a vote, users would vote for a certain definition. Then someone closes the vote and the definition is fixed (for the next 4 years?). Rating would be an ongoing...
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| Aviation data |
With the loss of the Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File, I've been trying to put together something on the order of a structured Wiki that people could use to edit or enter aviation data, for airports, ground based navaids and air based...
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| WordPress Tagging Plugin |
OverviewFreebase topics provide content creators with the ability to tag their content with meaningful and unambiguous tags. By creating a WordPress plugin that supports Freebase-enabled tags, this feature would be easily accessible to millions...
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| Serendipity weblog plugin |
As with the request for a WordPress Weblog tagging plugin, Serendipity also supports freestyle tagging through a plugin. Having a plugin that would allow the retrieval of data from Freebase would also be a great utility.
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| Separated at birth |
I'd like to see an application that allows users to view and accumulate pairings of photos/people that look alike. This was best done in Spy Magazine. This would show images side by side, such as:
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| Freebase Structure to SKOS | Freebase Application |
Like Tom Morris' suggestion for Freebase to RDF Proxy, I think it would be highly useful to be able to export Freebase topics and relatedness structure to SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System).
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| Wordpress plugin like crunchbase |
Crunchbase is a great closed DB of tech companies run by the company techcrunch. You are able to use it on your own blog / website and it would be great if a feature like this was available for freebase. Here is an example of crunchbase being used...
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| Songbird Add-On |
Create a plug-in for Songbird (open source media player like iTunes) that would display the Freebase page for the artist of the song that I'm currently listening to. It would be cool if it also let you edit the data Freebase from inside...
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