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Freebase Blog
blog.freebase.com · Company blog · on HN since 2008
The Freebase team wrote about its open graph database, data cleanup tools, and APIs, before Google acquired it.
What HN saysHN links it for Freebase's Graph API implementation, Gridworks (later Google Refine), and tagging, with commenters finding the data cleanup tools useful.
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Most-shared posts
- 1A Freebase implementation of the Facebook Graph API2 people · 29 points · first shared 2010 · 2 comments on HN
- 2A Tour of Freebase's graph database: Graphd2 people · 8 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 3Screencast of Freebase Gridworks: open source tool for data cleanup and analysis2 people · 3 points · first shared 2010 · 1 comments on HN
- 4A paper about Freebase’s RABJ engine1 people · 11 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 5Freebase releases Gridworks 1.01 people · 9 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 6Freebase mashup: restaurants ordered by health department score1 people · 6 points · first shared 2008 · 1 comments on HN
- 7Open Source Acre - the hosted, server-side JavaScript platform behind Freebase1 people · 4 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 8Freebase’s new look and new features1 people · 4 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 9The Freebase Blog » 100,000 books1 people · 4 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 10Meet the Freebase bots1 people · 3 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 11New load of 150,000 TV episodes into Freebase1 people · 2 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 12Previewing Acre, a Freebase app builder1 people · 2 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 13Mining knowledge from Wikipedia with WEX1 people · 2 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 14Freebase now available as a public data set on AWS1 people · 1 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 15Metaweb joins Google1 people · 1 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
SudarshanP · 2010-05-05
Freebase has some great info about food and drink: http://www.freebase.com/view/food You may find the following link useful to get a deeper understanding of tagging wrt freebase. http://blog.freebase.com/2009/06/10/common-tag-using-freebase-topics-a…
LiveTheDream · 2011-02-01
née Freebase GridWorks http://blog.freebase.com/2010/11/10/google-refine-previously-freebase-…
ntoshev · 2010-09-27
The way Facebook's Graph API is structured can be applied to other datasets containing interconnected objects. It's like a REST service serving JSON, with a specific way to construct the URLs. I like it a lot. Here is a blog post explaining the Freebase implementation:
http://blog.freebase.com/2010/04/29/a-freebase-implementation-of-the-f…
The Facebook docs:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api
But even the cleanest API is of no use if the API calls don't actually work...
tayles · 2010-04-01
The apparently soon to be released Gridworks project from Freebase (http://blog.freebase.com/2010/03/26/preview-freebase-gridworks) looks like it could go a long way to help with data cleansing, especially with grouping and batch editing similar mis-spellings and such.