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I have added freebase suggest succesfully but its trying to get suggest data from internet which is normal. I would like to use these data dumps as suggest data. I downloaded those data dumps but I don't know how to use them. Do you have a walkthrough for that kind of situation ?

Thanks for your support.

could I connect freebase suggest to that datadumps locally ? Freebase suggest is using suggest.min.js for to get data and it need internet for to get it. how can I direct it to my local data ?

Thanks.

Yes, this should clearly be dated information. That would make this an interesting type: the dates would have to refer to the dates that each number of aircraft were owned. So if an airline bought one new airplane in 2000, and liked it enough to buy five more in 2001, and then one crashed in 2003, the data would be:

Airline: X
Aircraft: Y
Number: 1
From: 2000
To: 2000

Airline: X
Aircraft: Y
Number: 6
From: 2001
To: 2003

Airline: X
Aircraft: Y
Number: 5
From: 2003
To:

That is an inappropriate use of this site, which is meant for building relational linkages between disparate data. You are welcome to add your company, with you as an employee, and all the pertinent data in the properties for the type /business/companyand type /employer.

We will delete the discussion posts, as the do classify as spam, and warn you that your account will be locked if you continue to not follow our site's guidelines in contributing. We wish to encourage you to do a little investigation on how data is structured on Freebase and please do contribute your knowledge appropriately.

this is an alias for

Dendral software program (and is so marked now)

Would it be possible to add links to the next and previous issue in a series in much the way that tv shows link to the next / previous episode?

It would make it easier to click from one issue to the next in cases where a comic book series has 600+ issues.

Can use this query in the query editor http://www.freebase.com/app/queryeditor/?q=null:

[{ "name~=": "general election", "type": "/government/election", "return": "count" }]

Current count: 1206

I have planned to take these precious melodies to each creature of this planate, to propagate this enormous Indian Vedic wisdom to enjoy heaven on earth. Please join the movement for the great cause to contribute pure knowledge to generation to come. I have an idea that Gandharva Veda music should reach first to rural and urban India then rest of the world. We can establish an organization with the group of founder members. I appeal to all musicians and music lovers to come forward and join the movement. No one has to contribute financially in this, only one best thing one can do is to organize the concert (with lecture demonstration) in your place, where you live, do not have to spend money on that, if it is not commercial also it would work. Please come forward and do in what way you can. This is the way we can reach more people with this ancient knowledge; more people will get to know the importance of this precious art form. Some new local talent will get opportunity to show their talent. You can come up with your suggestions if you have one. If you are interested, send your details to my e-mail, so I can include you as a member. Let us work together to energize the Indian classical music. Interested people please contact me on my e-mail.

Vedang Dharashive. Vedang_dharashive@yahoo.co.in

Looks like "The Evening World" had a short and tumultuous history in the last month or so, including double-redirects with NYC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Evening_World&action=history

This created an edge case we haven't encountered before -- we're digging into the details

Just to close this out, since it is an interesting edge case.

The wikipedia article for NYC is one of the

However, when "The Evening World" was split at wikipedia, our recon pipeline had a new issue. Since none of the WPIDs and redirects for NYC were available, the best available match for the set of keys on NYC became The_Evening_World, so the WPID was moved to that article.

We have manually forced the keys and we are altering the pipeline so that this edge case is handled.

Hello,

I notice you have created crafts.freebase.com. I'm quite interested in creating a list of crafts in Freebase, would you be willing to add me as an Admin to the Crafts base to do this under this URL?

Many thanks

paul

Hello,

I wonder if it is possible to get the Related topics retrieved via the API (either MQL(read) or Search service). With that I mean the following: If you look at this book (Daemon by Suarez) here: http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000005661441 You'll see in the middle right of the screen "Related topics". That seems to me related or similar books. Can I retrieve that list via one of the APIs? BTW: when I click on "Edit and show details", none of the "Related topics" guids seem to be in the RDF or JSON data.

I tried the search api. The example in http://www.freebase.com/docs/web_services/search#limiting-the-scope-of-results shows something like this that looks promising: http://api.freebase.com/api/service/search?query=new+moon&related=/en/twilight_saga&indent=1

(BTW: this seems to be the same search but different explanation? http://www.freebase.com/docs/mql/ch04.html#id2943798)

So I've tried for example this one: http://api.freebase.com/api/service/search?query=&type=/book/written_work&limit=20&related=/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000005661441 With the idea that you search for any /boook/written_work that is related with the guid of Daemon by Suarez. But that returns that the call timed out.

So if it is not possible via the Search service, does MQL make it possible? I couldn't find anything related to it, nor any properties that suggest it is possible.

Thanks in advance for any tips! Regards, Renee

Are you using TuneUp Media's plugin?  (Just so I have some context here.)

But broadly speaking:  you would start by adding the relevant artist here (click "Add new", type their name, and select from the list if it's there already, otherwise "create new").  Then go to that topic page and edit to your heart's content, adding pictures and a description and whatever.

As for what's needed to connect it to TuneUp's stuff... I can ask around.  I don't use it myself.  You probably need some particular id/key.

I think that highlights precisely the issue that Jeff was talking about.  Did Gampopa (Thinkbase link) really not "influence" some of his students or did someone just forget to do the redundant data entry (made necessary by the denormalization) in the "influence node" part of the graph?

Having said that, the Academic type that Jeff pointed to has precisely the same problem. Perhaps the Influencer/Influencer link needs to be qualified by type or strength or ...

One of the things of this type that I think it would be cool to be able to include is the Math Genealogy project http://www.genealogy.ams.org/

I have a use case, though not sure where or how to type it. Any who wants to handle it, go right ahead...

A Tutor (or the previously discussed Student/Teacher relationship) and how they influence (the influence node)...

Person: Darius Ford (Friend of Mark Twain - aka Samuel Clemens) Tutored: Olivia Langdon Clemens (wife of the famous author) While working at Elmira College as Professor of Physical Sciences.

Reference Citation : http://toolsofhistory.cdmhost.com/u?/p261501coll9,29

Looking at the NUTS info, it looks like we'd need a new type "NUTS region" or the like -- the NUTS codes (at least for Europe) frequently don't correspond to actual administrative divisions of countries.

I'm tempted to say that UN/LOCODE should just go on Location, though -- it seems like a lot of different things (mostly cities and airports, I guess) can have them, but I'm only saying this based on about ten minutes looking at the UN/LOCODE data.

Jeff,

In further enhancing anticipated Port Data that I'm collecting, it's becoming apparent that Shipping Companies, Port Terminal Operations, Maritime Laws & Organizations are usually referring to a location code setup by the UN. This one is pretty important I think, because a lot of international government data and statistics on commerce is linked to this code from what I've found. (Lots of good facts but they need a home)

http://www.unece.org/cefact/locode/

I would like to suggest that we have add an extra property for UN/LOCODE. I'm not sure if THIS ( Ex. /location/location/un_locode - Text: UN/LOCODE ) is the best place. One use case that my wife came up with is the Port of Yantian, China where more than half is operational just for Walmart ! (UN/LOCODE: CNYTN)

On further inspection and reading their PDF, it appears that the code is made up of the 2 letter ISO 3166-1 and then followed by a 3 letter location code. (According to their PDF it states "For ease of reading, in the code list the country and location name code elements are separated by a space. In actual use, this space could be suppressed."

Here's the docs on the UN/LOCODE column itself...notice the mention of only 3 letter codes when there is an IATA code already.

3.2.1 Column 1 in UN/LOCODE shows the ISO 3166 alpha-2 Country Code that is followed by a space and a 3-character code for the place name: XX XXX. The 3-character code element for the location name will normally comprise three letters. However, where all permutations available for a country have been exhausted, the numerals 2-9 may also be used. A code element added to a new version of the code list may be preceded by a plus sign (+); a letter X (X) means that the code element will be removed from the next version of UN/LOCODE and a vertical bar (|) indicates a change in the location entry.

3.2.2 For ease of reading, in the code list the country and location name code elements are separated by a space. In actual use, this space could be suppressed.

3.2.3 The code list is presented by country, in alphabetical country code element order according to ISO 3166, and with place names listed in alphabetical order within each country.

3.2.4 When interpreting location code values found outside of the code list in part 2 of the UN/LOCODE Manual, it is understood that: when a three-letter code is used alone to indicate a location, it designates the name of an airport or location as adopted by IATA (whose code only has three letters); whereas a three letter code preceded by a two-letter country code designates the name for a location as adopted within the UN/LOCODE and might depict a different location from that of the IATA code, e.g. PAR = IATA code for Paris, France (UN/LOCODE = FR PAR); GB PAR = UN/LOCODE for Par, United Kingdom.

3.2.5 In cases where no ISO 3166 country code element is available, e.g. installations in international waters or international cooperation zones, the code element "XZ", available for user assignment in accordance with clause 8.1.3 of ISO 3166-1/1997, will be used.

Hi Ian. Back in the summer you added some sailboat classes, some of which I think are dupes, but they don't contain enough information to tell for sure. Were they imported from a particular list or source that could be used to help tell what they are?

Two that I think are dupes are the Solo and the Splash, but there are others without any information like the X99, some Westerly boats, and probably some others. If you know the info, a couple of words of description, even if it's just "dinghy" or "double handed keelboat" would be big help. Alternatively a LOA or some other descriptive property.

I think I already flagged the Achilles 24 since it seemed to have a unique enough name, but something like Solo is to easy to be wrong about, so I'll hold off on the rest.

Tom,

To be honest, I can't remember exactly - but either a RYA list of classes or an ISAF list; most likely similar to this one: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/6092460/The-RYA-Portsmouth-Yardstick-Number-List-for-CRUISERS-Listed

Iain