[Data-modeling] [Developers] Schema Visualisation app

[Stefano Mazzocchi]

Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
> Philip Kendall wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 01:42:29PM +0100, Philip Kendall wrote:
>>> Some of you may have already seen Kirrily's tweet, but if not... a little
>>> app while people may be interested in:
>>>
>>> http://schemaviz.freebaseapps.com/
>> Mildly updated version now published:
>>
>> * Node shapes now indicate the display style of the type (ellipse:
>>   standard, rectangle: CVT, triangle: enumeration)
>> * New option to show included types via dotted edges (this deliberately
>>   excludes /common/topic)
>> * New option to ignore "common types" (those in /type, eg integer, text,
>>   etc). This can make the graph significantly simpler and (I think)
>>   easier to understand in some cases (try American Football)
>> * One bugfix: if a domain contains more than 100 types (I'm looking at
>>   you, /location), then the app would fail as it only fetched half the
>>   data.
>>   There's still an issue with /location in that the graphviz server
>>   times out if given the full graph, but it does work if you turn *off*
>>   "show included types" and turn *on" "ignore common types".
>>
>> Thanks to Jeff, Iain and Ed for their suggestions. Any more welcome :-)
> 
> Phil,
> 
> I'm trying to integrate schemaviz into the freebase schema explorer and 
> I'm thinking that it would be way cool to show directly a thumbnail for 
> people to click on, for that I would need the schemaviz to be able to 
> able to answer something like
> 
>   http://schemaviz.freebaseapps.com/image?domain=/whatever
> 
> and redirect to the right image, that way I could embed it as a 
> clickable thumbnail in the domain page of the schema explorer.
> 
> Thoughts?

Nevermind, found something close enough, here we go:

  http://schemas.freebaseapps.com/domain?id=/food

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Stefano Mazzocchi                              Application Catalyst
Metaweb Technologies, Inc.                      stefano at metaweb.com
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