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This is a big shame. Freebase was by far the most consistent of the open data graphs. With my cynic hat on I think they're being forced by larger strategy. The

This is a big shame. Freebase was by far the most consistent of the open data graphs. With my cynic hat on I think they're being forced by larger strategy. The existing Freebase dumps are far too useful for a Google would be competitor, and I suspect the Knowledge Graph API will be somewhat more restrictive in what you're allowed to do with it. The thing is the more you get into this stuff the more you envy Facebook's position where people give them structured data on a plate.

magicalist 12y ago
> The existing Freebase dumps are far too useful for a Google would be competitor from the article: > The last Freebase data dump will remain available and even if it wasn't, I'm sure archive.org will grab a copy (if they haven't already).
- sled 12y ago
  Part of the value was that the dumps were updated weekly. Say you're using it to get a list of named entities (proper nouns). The purpose is to cluster news stories about a given entity (if you look at Facebook's Trending News, each headline begins with a proper noun followed by a blurb. Not sure if they use Freebase, but it could be a useful input). The value of Freebase will decline over time as the content becomes out of date.
  - emw 12y ago
    The Wikidata dumps are also updated weekly; see [1]. Wikidata RDF exports are made every two months or so from those dumps and are available at [2]. I imagine that frequency will pick up. You can generate your own RDF exports using the Wikidata Toolkit [3, 4]. [1] http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/wikidata/ http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/wikidata/ [2] http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-exports/rdf/ http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-exports/rdf/ [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Toolkit https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Toolkit [4] https://github.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit https://github.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit
walterbell 12y ago
> Facebook's position where people give them structured data on a plate. Do they get any structured data other than user profiles?
- TazeTSchnitzel 12y ago
  Yes: Various types of pages which cover virtually anything.

magicalist 12y ago

> The existing Freebase dumps are far too useful for a Google would be competitor from the article: > The last Freebase data dump will remain available and even if it wasn't, I'm sure archive.org will grab a copy (if they haven't already).

sled 12y ago
Part of the value was that the dumps were updated weekly. Say you're using it to get a list of named entities (proper nouns). The purpose is to cluster news stories about a given entity (if you look at Facebook's Trending News, each headline begins with a proper noun followed by a blurb. Not sure if they use Freebase, but it could be a useful input). The value of Freebase will decline over time as the content becomes out of date.
- emw 12y ago
  The Wikidata dumps are also updated weekly; see [1]. Wikidata RDF exports are made every two months or so from those dumps and are available at [2]. I imagine that frequency will pick up. You can generate your own RDF exports using the Wikidata Toolkit [3, 4]. [1] http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/wikidata/ http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/wikidata/ [2] http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-exports/rdf/ http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-exports/rdf/ [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Toolkit https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Toolkit [4] https://github.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit https://github.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit

walterbell 12y ago

> Facebook's position where people give them structured data on a plate. Do they get any structured data other than user profiles?

TazeTSchnitzel 12y ago
Yes: Various types of pages which cover virtually anything.