nyc semantic web meetup - aug 2009
TRANSCRIPT
A socially managed semantic database
All objects in Freebase have strong identifiers
http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/en.yorkie
government position held
topic:United States
Senator
topic:Barack Obama
Freebase
topic:UBS AG
took money from
topic:Barack Obama
CRP
topic:UBS AG
topic:Switzerland
is based in
SWX listing
Graph Merging Magic
government position held
topic:United States
Senator
topic:Barack Obama
Freebase
topic:UBS AG
took money from
topic:UBS AG
topic:Switzerland
is based in
SWX listing
Graph Merging Magic
government position held
topic:United States
Senator
topic:Barack Obama
Freebase
topic:UBS AG
took money from
topic:Switzerland
is based in
Graph Merging Magic
government position held
topic:United States
Senator
topic:Barack Obama
Freebase
topic:UBS AG
took money from
topic:Switzerland
is based in
Contributions over $50000 made to members of the US congress in the 2008 election cycle by companies
headquartered outside of the United States
Industry Browser
http://kiwitobes.com/industry_mashup/
Industry Browser Identity Model
Industry (USCB)NAICS
Industry (SEC)SIC
NAICS/SIC MapFreebase
CompanyCIKSEC
PeopleCIKSEC
PersonWikipediaFreebase
CompanyCRP IDCRP
DonationsCRP IDCRP
LocationZIP Code
Freebase
CompanyTicker
SEC
Article
Wikipedia
Freebase Suggest
http://dev.freebaseapps.com/docs/suggest
Using Freebase Suggest
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="http://freebaselibs.com/static/suggest/0.9.3/suggest.min.css"/> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://freebaselibs.com/static/suggest/0.9.3/suggest.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function($) { $('#myinput').suggest({'type':'/my/type'}) .bind("fb-select", function(e, data) { myupdate(data.id); }); });
</script>
Freebase is user writable
Don’t have a topic that you need need?
ADD IT!
Data Model
John Krasinski
Person, Actor
The Office (US)TV Program
stars in starred in
Leatherheads
Film
Brown UniversityCollege/university
attended
Users extend the data model
Don’t have a topic that you need need?
ADD IT!
schema = vocabulary
A range of of vocabularies....
1500 types with 500+ instances!!
MQL
[{ "name" : null, "type" : "/film/film"}]
MQL
[{ "name" : null, "type" : "/film/film",
"directed_by":"George Lucas"}]
MQL
[{ "name" : null, "type" : "/film/film",
"directed_by":{"id":"/en/george_lucas"}}]
[{ "name" : null, "type" : "/film/film",
"directed_by":{"id":"/en/george_lucas"}, "starring":[{
"actor":null}]
}]
Film Performance Actor
[{ "name" : null, "type" : "/film/film",
"directed_by":{"id":"/en/george_lucas"}, "starring":[{
"actor":{"id":"/en/harrison_ford"}}]
}]
MQL
[{ "name" : null, "type" : "/film/film",
"directed_by":{"id":"/en/george_lucas"}, "starring": [{ "actor": { "name": null, "film": [{ "film": {"id": "/en/the_great_escape"} }] } }]}]
Donald PleasenceTHX 1138
A Semantic Publishing Platform
Freebase Schema in RDFShttp://rdfvocab.freebaseapps.com/fb2rdfs?domain=/film<rdf:RDF> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/film.film"> <rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Class"/> <label>Film</label> </rdf:Description> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/film.film.initial_release_date"> <rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#Property"/> <label>Initial release date</label> <domain rdf:resource="http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/film.film"/> <range rdf:resource="http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/type.datetime"/> </rdf:Description> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/type.datetime"> <rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Class"/> <label>Date/Time</label> </rdf:Description> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/film.film.directed_by"> <rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#Property"/> <label>Directed by</label> <domain rdf:resource="http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/film.film"/> <range rdf:resource="http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/film.director"/> </rdf:Description> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/film.director"> <rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Class"/> <label>Film director</label>
We believe this for code, why not data?
Designing for change
Graph Stores
Portability
Data
Data
Data
Data
Semantics allows an application to utilize unanticipated new data sources
Data
Data
Data
Data
Semantics allows data to be utilized by unanticipated new applications
Plug-able
DATA
Application Ecosystem
DATA
Consume RepublishProcess
Application Ecosystem
rel=license
Strong Identifiers
Strong Semantics
Open Data
