Freebase
Written on 5:12 PM by Tushar
Attended a lecture by John Giannandrea, CTO of Metaweb Technologies on "Freebase: An Open Database of the World's Information" at PARC which happens to be just across the street from VMware office.
ABSTRACT
Freebase -- an open database of the world's information -- is built by a global community and is free for anyone to query, contribute to, and build applications on. Drawing from large open data sets like Wikipedia, MusicBrainz, and the SEC, Freebase is curated by a passionate global community of users and contains structured information on millions of topics such as music, food ingredients, rocket engines, stock indices, historical events, and more.
This was arranged as a part of 'Going Beyond Web 2.0' lecture series.Online archive of previous lectures can be found here.
Notes to self
- Revisit - DB normalization, Transaction processing.
- Know more! - URI,onotologies, semantic web, RDF,Powersets,Schema "last" or schema "later"
- Look at - Google maps API, Freebase API
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