Hoi,
I am pleased to learn the data is still available to you. I wish Wikidata
would do better. As a follow up on what your wrote, I blogged about the
failure to support the Freebase community.
Thanks,
GerardM
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2015/07/wikidata-failing-freebase-community.html
On 15 July 2015 at 21:25, Paul Houle <ontolo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> For those who are interested in the project of getting something out of
> Freebase for use in Wikidata or somewhere else, I'd like to point out
>
> http://basekb.com/gold/
>
> this a completely workable solution for running queries out of Freebase
> after the MQL API goes dark.
>
> I have been watching the discussion about the trouble moving Freebase data
> to Wikidata and let me share some thoughts.
>
> First quality is in the eye of the beholder and if somebody defines that
> quality is a matter of citing your sources, than that is their definition
> of 'quality' and they can attain it. You might have some other definition
> of quality and be appalled that Wikidata has so little to say about a topic
> that has caused much controversy and suffering:
>
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q284451
>
> there are ways to attain that too.
>
> Part of the answer is that different products are going to be used in
> different places. For instance, one person might need 100% coverage of
> books he wants to talk about, another one might want a really great
> database of ski areas, etc.
>
> Note that Freebase did a lot of human curation and we know they could get
> about 3000 verifications of facts by "non-experts" a day who were paid for
> their efforts. That scales out to almost a million facts per FTE per year.
>
>
>
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