[Developers] Creating your own types (or mapping PAD format to Freebase)

[Aseem Mohanty]

Hi Sebastian,

You don't really need to create a type 
(http://www.freebase.com/view/helptopic?id=%239202a8c04000641f8000000004ff9406) 
for the format. PAD is a file format, for which freebase already has a type 
defined in the Computers domain 
(http://www.freebase.com/view/domain?id=%2Fcomputer).

All you would need to do is to create a topic called PAD by going to the file 
format type page (http://www.freebase.com/view/filter?id=/computer/file_format) 
and clicking on the 'Add new File Format' link at the top left.

Incidentally there appears to be a file format called PAD in freebase 
(http://www.freebase.com/view/?id=%239202a8c04000641f8000000005202459) however I 
am not sure it is the same file format as the one you mentioned. I this case 
once you click on the 'Add new File Format' link in the edit box that shows up, 
you may see the existing 'pad' file format as oen of the items in the drop down. 
Just ignore it and select the 'Create new File Format' option at the bottom.

HTH
AM

Sebastian R. Wain wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to have the possibility to create a type for PAD format 
> (http://198.63.208.118/pad/) on Freebase.
> PAD format is an 'standard' for describing software applications in a 
> XML and is used for many software directories.
> Since many thousands of PADs are available I would like to upload part 
> of the contents to Freebase to visualize them, like Cinespin but for 
> software.
> I have found the 'Software' type but a type related with PAD will be 
> more transparent to upload current software base.
> 
> My questions are: Is it possible to create a type? or do I need some 
> permissions?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Sebastian
>