Comments on: Freebase: a useful companion to Wikipedia http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2007/08/25/freebase-a-useful-companion-to-wikipedia/ Education. Technology. Productivity. Wed, 23 May 2012 07:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Doug Belshaw http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2007/08/25/freebase-a-useful-companion-to-wikipedia/comment-page-1/#comment-213 Doug Belshaw Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:11:00 +0000 http://edte.ch/2007/08/25/freebase-a-useful-compatriot-to-wikipedia/#comment-213 Yes, the API does look to be fairly good - it gives it a semantic structure that could be used to great advantage to educators. I've got a login, thanks to Darren Kuropatwa, so I think I'll have a play about with it! :) Yes, the API does look to be fairly good – it gives it a semantic structure that could be used to great advantage to educators. I’ve got a login, thanks to Darren Kuropatwa, so I think I’ll have a play about with it! :)

]]> By: John http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2007/08/25/freebase-a-useful-companion-to-wikipedia/comment-page-1/#comment-212 John Sun, 26 Aug 2007 11:26:38 +0000 http://edte.ch/2007/08/25/freebase-a-useful-compatriot-to-wikipedia/#comment-212 Freebase is a pretty exciting app. If it has no information it seems to pull it in from Wikipedia and create a page (or perhaps they pulled in all of wikipedia at the start?) Perhaps the real advantage freebase has over wikipedia is the API(the developer bit). This would enable the creation of simpler web-based databases for use in the classroom. There are some examples of very slick app feeding off freebase, eg: <a href="http://jameshome.com/freebase/fmdb/index.html" rel="nofollow">FMDb</a> a movie database. Freebase is a pretty exciting app. If it has no information it seems to pull it in from Wikipedia and create a page (or perhaps they pulled in all of wikipedia at the start?)

Perhaps the real advantage freebase has over wikipedia is the API(the developer bit). This would enable the creation of simpler web-based databases for use in the classroom. There are some examples of very slick app feeding off freebase, eg: FMDb a movie database.

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