[Data-modeling] Marsupials

[Ed Laurent]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:45 PM, <tigre119 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi brendan
> i am tim

 [snip]

>
> My freebase is about marsupials and i want to fine-tune it, in fact it
> needs to contain all available info about marsupials.
> How can I set my freebase so it gathers data automatically and can it index
> it for me itself after collecting data from round the web?
> So that queries automatically gather and present the details about any
> species of marsupials and associated plants and animals, from a range of
> data bases such as Berkley Uni, Smithsonian inst., DBPedia and others.
> the data results are needed as a mash-up result from several sources,
> displayed as a form or a webpage.


Hi Tim,

There's a lot of data that will be useful to you already in Freebase
(e.g., Organism
classification<http://www.freebase.com/type/schema/biology/organism_classification>).
You may want to check out the Biology <http://www.freebase.com/view/biology>,
LitCentral <http://litcentral.freebase.com>, Conservation
Action<http://conservationaction.freebase.com/>,
Bird Conservation <http://birdconservation.freebase.com/>, and Bird
Info<http://birdinfo.freebase.com/>bases for ideas on modeling
marsupials. In particular, the Biology schema
and most of the LitCentral and Conservation Action schema were modeled to be
relevant to any taxa.

There are many ways to get data into Freebase. However, linking or adding
data from other database systems will likely require some work on your part
modeling compatible Freebase schema, as well as obtaining and formatting the
data or keys from other sources. Note that these other data sets must be
under Creative Commons or compatible licensing. There are ways to automate
the import of data into Freebase but you will need to program most of them
yourself. The help files <http://www.freebase.com/help> accessible at the
top of any Freebase page are a great place to start learning more.

-Ed
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