[Data-modeling] Animal breeds and owners

Robert Cook robert at metaweb.com
Fri Feb 6 23:42:32 UTC 2009


Yes, this would be very welcome.  We've been slowly seeding automotive  
(cars and trucks) over the last few months, but by no means is it yet  
comprehensive.  Once you get something you're happy to share, let us  
know and we'll do what we can to use it to improve and/or expand the  
data already in Freebase.

R

On Feb 6, 2009, at 2:34 PM, Paul Houle wrote:

>    Recently we've built a taxonomy of car makes and models based on
> government databases and wikipedia.  It identifies many car models  
> that
> were not tagged as car models in freebase the last time I looked.  Our
> process starts with a set of objects that have a known identity,
> expands it to a larger set where the precision isn't so good,  and  
> then
> uses various filtering processes to clean up the taxonomy.  I think
> we'll have something acceptable after the next processing phase --  
> we'd
> be happy to contribute data of this sort to freebase.



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