<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Jun 3, 2009, at 6:45 AM, Jack Alves wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I noticed creator and attribution properties are set to the user when data is created via <a href="http://freebase.com">freebase.com</a>. Are there any cases when they would be different when data is created using <a href="http://freebase.com">freebase.com</a>? <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>When writing via freebase.com, the attribution should always show the writing user. I do not believe there is any mechanism available standard MQL to change this,</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite">What is the intended use for the attribution property? Can anything be inserted in that property? Could it be used to store a webpage object id or url that asserts the data is true? Is attribution intended only for cases where data sets get inhaled like wikipedia or musicbrainz data?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Some of our large internal data loads, such as the wikipedia update, use a specialized "attribution" node that is cotyped with /type/attribution and /dataworld/provenance. The properties of these type contain information about the dataload, including the information source and software tool used for loading.</div><div><br></div><div>However, the attribution mechanism is not generally available for annotating links in general, nor is it accessible to users via freebase.com. </div><br><blockquote type="cite">This topic is slightly related to something I want to try soon. For every link, I want a way for any user to indicate whether they believe the assertion to be true or false. I imagine this could be accomplished by pointing a protected user or group object to the link. How should something like this be modeled?<br></blockquote></div><br><div>Currently, we do not support any mechanisms for adding properties to links -- except for the exception of sort index.</div><div><br></div><div>In any case, attribution is probably not the correct way of doing this, as re-attributing to a "protected user" would obscure the original provenance of the link.</div><div><br></div><div>Brian</div></body></html>