[Data-modeling] new Freebase application online: Thinkbase

[Christian Hirsch]

thanks for the feedback.

I've included a few responses to your comments below.

Cheers,
Christian


On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Ed Laurent <spatial.db at gmail.com> wrote:

> A couple comments from a user:
>
> The graph visualization can get rather busy quickly. There is a nice right
> click feature to Expand but none to Collapse. It would be nice if a right
> click collapse was possible.
>

>> this is a know problem. There actually is a collapse function but it
becomes quite hard to access the more connections there are (not accessible
at all for those with lots of connections). The trick is to hit the
aggregation nodes (the gray dots) or its labels at a spot when there is no
edge highlighted.
I'm working on improving this.


>
> I also suggest a feature to open the graph in a new window/tab so there is
> more real estate for viewing it. It would be nice if the zoom and pan
> capabilities were still available in this new presentation.
>

>> Will maybe add that in a future release. Meanwhile, just increase the
size of the frame to get more space.

>
> Combined, these features would allow me to tailor the graph display in a
> way that makes a clean screen capture. The figure could then be used to
> champion Freebase to others who are not techy.
>
> The app has locked up on me when I copy the "Share" URL and paste it in a
> new tab. The new tab loads the app but not the data. It seems to happen more
> with busy graphs.


>> This can happen sometimes (even though I've encountered it only very
rarely). Large graphs can take a while to load. Interacting with it while
loading could be a reason for it? Feel free to send me the link to a
specific page where you've had that problem.

>
>
> It is also a little difficult to copy the URL. It would be nice if there
> was a button to copy it to the clipboard or if that copy was automatically
> implemented when "Share" was pushed.


>
> I really, really like this app. Great job!
> -Ed
>
> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 11:59 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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