[Developers] Schools, Colleges, Data loading and more...

[Paul Lindner]

Hi there,

I was recently invited to the Freebase alpha.  I like what I see!  I
work for Hi5 and we can see a ton of potential here.

Couple of questions though.

* What about internationalization?  Are there facilities for storing
  different names based on language?  Or would that be a
  specialization of an existing type?

    For example the city New York City is Nueva York in Spanish

  This looks like a big problem and I hope it gets solved in a
  comprehensive way.  It would be nice to see the ability to mark
  certain text as the canonical form and allow other translations to
  be made.  Then if the canonical form is changed the other languages
  can be flagged for re-verification.

* Is there any planned integration with geonames.org?

* Hi5 has a large database of schools we could contribute.  Most of
  these are imported from official sources, we could just submit the
  data but I'm more interested in contributing tools that can be used to
  refresh data from offical sources.  What's the best way to do that?

* Would it be possible to integrate editing / submitting functionality
  on external sites?  Something better than just a link to the
  freebase edit page might be interesting.

* How about OpenID authentication for contributors?  This would
  obviously be something for post-alpha.


In any case, glad to see this effort and am excited about the
possibilities that it offers.

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Paul Lindner        ||||| | | | |  |  |  |   |   |
lindner at inuus.com
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