A socially managed semantic database

All objects in Freebase have strong identifiers
http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/en.yorkie

Graph Merging Magic
topic: topic: topic:
Barack Obama Barack Obama Switzerland
government position held took money from is based in
topic:
topic: topic:
United States UBS AG
UBS AG
Senator
Freebase CRP SWX listing

Graph Merging Magic
topic: topic:
Barack Obama Switzerland
government position held took money from is based in
topic:
topic: topic:
United States UBS AG
UBS AG
Senator
Freebase SWX listing

Graph Merging Magic
topic: topic:
Barack Obama Switzerland
government position held took money from is based in
topic:
topic:
United States
UBS AG
Senator
Freebase

Contributions over $50000 made to members of the
US congress in the 2008 election cycle by companies
headquartered outside of the United States
topic: topic:
Barack Obama Switzerland
government position held took money from is based in
topic:
topic:
United States
UBS AG
Senator
Freebase

Industry Browser
http://kiwitobes.com/industry_mashup/

Industry Browser Identity Model
Industry (USCB) Company Company Donations
NAICS Ticker CRP CRP ID CRP CRP ID
NAICS/SIC Map
SEC
Freebase
Industry (SEC) Company People Person
SIC SEC CIK SEC CIK Freebase Wikipedia
Freebase Wikipedia
Location Article
ZIP Code

Freebase Suggest

http://dev.freebaseapps.com/docs/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>
Using Freebase Suggest

Don’t have a topic that you need need?
ADD IT!
Freebase is user writable

The Office (US) Leatherheads
TV Program Film
stars in starred in
John Krasinski
Person, Actor
attended
Brown University
College/university
Data Model

Don’t have a topic that you need need?
ADD IT!
Users extend the data model

schema = vocabulary

1500 types with 500+ instances!!
A range of of vocabularies....

[{
"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"}
}]
MQL

[{
"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 Pleasence
THX 1138

A Semantic Publishing Platform

http://rdf.freebase.com/

Freebase Schema in RDFS
http://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>

Designing for change
We believe this for code, why not data?

Graph Stores

Data Data
Portability
Semantics allows data to
be utilized by
Data
unanticipated new
applications
Data
Data Plug-able
Semantics allows an
Data
application to utilize
unanticipated new
Data
Data
data sources

Consume Process Republish
DATA DATA
Application Ecosystem

Application Ecosystem

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Strong Identifiers
Strong Semantics
Open Data