[Data-modeling] new Freebase application online: Thinkbase

[Christian Hirsch]

Thanks for the feedback.

No, its not a pure client-side application. The calls to freebase are
actually made from the server-side. We are monitoring the server so that we
(hopefully) can react to potential issues with scale.

Cheers,
Christian


On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Jeff Thompson <jeff at thefirst.org> wrote:

> Congrats on a great application.  Is this a pure client-side which only
> queries freebase.com, or when I click a node does it need to
> communicate with thinkbase.cs.auckland.ac.nz?  (I'm wondering if it
> would scale up with many users or melt your server.)
>
> Christian Hirsch wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I've just added a new Freebase application: "Thinkbase"
> > (http://thinkbase.cs.auckland.ac.nz)
> >
> > Thinkbase is a visual navigation and exploration tool for Freebase. The
> > application is divided into two frames. The left frame displays an
> > interactive visual representation of the Freebase contents and its
> > semantic relationships in the form of a graph. Each node in the graph
> > represents a Freebase article. The right frame displays the
> > corresponding articles in Freebase. Further features, such as expanding
> > / collapsing nodes and performing a search in Wikipedia or Google, are
> > accessible through the context menu (right click on nodes). See the
> > 'About' page for more details.
> >
> > Here is the Freebase apps entry:
> > http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000083ce2b8
> >
> > Feedback very welcome :)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Christian Hirsch
> >
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