presentation in October 2010, at FSOSS video is here http://www.fosslc.org/drupal/content/freebase-and-semantic-web

1. We
Will
Manage
Our
Information
better
We
Will
Collaberate
More
intellegently
The
Pope
Is
catholic
Tadpoles
become
frogsFreebase & semantic web
@spencermountain

2. We gave the monkeys the bananas because they were hungry.
We gave the monkeys the bananas because they were ripe.

3. all concepts and things can be put into beautiful order
Unambiguity, formality, consistency
An
alphabet
of thought

4. Wayne gretzky played for the Edmonton Oilers
David bowie is really tall
Darth vader is luke skywaker's father
Folksonomy
Openmind, mindpixel,
knowledge web

6. Murdoch had experimented with this idea in 1784 but had been discouraged by Watt.
Schwab was ambitious and enjoyed personal publicity and the trappings of wealth.
59,000 relations (Oct 2010)
One of the most powerful unions in America, the Amalgamated Association of Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers, had established a hold at Homestead.

7. 2) Phylogeny

11. Category: Saxophonists who are capable of circular breathing
Category: Actors who have played serial killers
Category: Films that are 87 minutes long

12. Category: Christian cheerleaders
Category: Blonde Characters
● Blonde person
● Cheerleader
● Fictional Character
● Teenager
● Christian
● Tambourine player
Betty Cooper is
Category: Babysitters from Riverdale
Category: Multi-instrumentalists
Category: High-school students

14. SVO language
● Fred
● Barney
● Wilma
● Likes
● Says
Three Nouns Two Verbs

15. Fred says
barney likes wilma.
Fred says
barney likes wilma.
Barney says

18. Subject Verb Object
Triple, tuple, troople..

22. Bases -> Types -> Properties

23. 13 Million Topics
3 million from wikipedia
5 million from Open Library
2 million from MusicBrainz
304 million facts
3 Gigabytes compressed

24. Untyped topics

25. [{
"type":"/astronomy/planet",
"name":[ ]
}]
{
"code": "/api/status/ok",
"result": [
{
"name": "Earth",
"type": "/astronomy/planet"
},
{
"name": "Venus",
"type": "/astronomy/planet"
},
{
"name": "Mars",
"type": "/astronomy/planet"
},
{
"name": "Mercury",
"type": "/astronomy/planet"
},
{
"name": "Jupiter",
"type": "/astronomy/planet"
},
{
"name": "Neptune",
"type": "/astronomy/planet"
},
{
"name": "Saturn",
"type": "/astronomy/planet"
},
{
"name": "Uranus",
"type": "/astronomy/planet"
}
],
"status": "200 OK"
}
MQL > SQL

26. [{
"type":"/astronomy/planet",
"name":[ ],
"/book/book_subject/works": [ ]
}]
{
"code": "/api/status/ok",
"result": [
{
"/book/book_subject/works": [
"Exploring the Earth and the Cosmos",
"The reasons for seasons",
"Planet Earth, inside out",
"Planet Earth",
"Tanar of Pellucidar",
"Back to the Stone Age",
"Pellucidar",
"Core",
"The Earth Path",
"Earth in Upheaval",
"The librarian who measured the earth",
"The Last Ghost Dance",
"The Earth and I",
"The Origin Of The Earth",
"Notes from the Holocene",
"The singing web",
"Revisioning the Earth",
"Re-visioning the earth",
"Highest, longest, deepest",
"The Atlantis Researches",
"Atlantis of the west",
"Earth Then and Now",
"Beginnings of Earth and Sky",
"Terra Amata"
],
"name": [
"Earth"
],
"type": "/astronomy/planet"
},
{
"/book/book_subject/works": [
"Venus",
"Perelandra",
"Space Cadet",
"Venus",
"Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and F
"Child of Venus",
"Podkayne of Mars",
"Man of Two Worlds",
"The Jungle / Clash by Night",
"Venus of Dreams",
"Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus",

27. freebase.com/api/service/search?query=gilmore
● Gilmore, Australia
● Gilmore, Arkansas
● David Gilmore
● Jimmy Dale Gilmore
● Gilmore Girls
● Gilmore, Florida

28. ../search?query=gilmore&type=/ice_hockey/hockey_player
● Doug Gilmore

30. E(xtended)MQL
stocks
lyrics
Freebase
MQL query
This will be awesome
news

32. Things that suck
● Information of absence
● Transitivity
● Internationalisation
● Identity over time
● Sharealike conflicts

33. spencerwater@gmail.com
@spencermountain