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

[Dan Milbrath]

There is also documentation on creating types in the help section of  
our site.
See: http://www.freebase.com/view/helptopic?id=% 
239202a8c04000641f80000000010c2d43

- Dan


On Jul 27, 2007, at 3:02 PM, Tim Sturge wrote:

> Sebastian, you can create your own type to model the PAD format. It
> would have properties like "application_icon_url"
> "application_order_url" and "download_url" (which could be an ordered
> list rather than having "secondary_download_url" as well).
>
> To get started in this process, go to the Domain page:
>
> http://www.freebase.com/view/allDomains
>
> and click the link labelled "Types you've created
> <http://www.freebase.com/api/metaweb/view?id=%2Fuser%2Ftsturge% 
> 2Fdefault_domain&typeId=%2Ftype%2Fdomain>".
>  From there, click on the "Types" list and it will prompt you to enter
> the name of a new type. You may wish to experiment in our sandox
> (http://sandbox.freebase.com/) which is a scratch area where you  
> can add
> test data which is automatically deleted at the start of each week.  
> When
> you are comfortable, you can create the type on www.freebase.com  
> itself.
>
> This is a quite involved process; so feel free to ask the developers
> list if you have any questions along the way.
>
> Tim
>
> Sebastian R. Wain wrote:
>> Hi Aseem,
>>
>> I think there can be some confusion: I would not like to add PAD just
>> as a "file format" but as a reusable structure for software.
>> For example having software A, B & C with pad information (program
>> cost, brief description, extended description, requirements, etc) I
>> want to add all of them following that structure.
>>
>> This is a section of the format:
>>
>>     ...
>>     ...
>>     ...
>>         <Web_Info>
>>             <Application_URLs>
>>
>>     <Application_Info_URL>http://www.nektra.com/products/oeapi/</ 
>> Application_Info_URL>
>>
>>     <Application_Order_URL>http://www.nektra.com/products/oeapi/ 
>> purchase.php</Application_Order_URL>
>>
>>     <Application_Screenshot_URL>http://www.nektra.com/products/ 
>> oeapi/screenshots/oeapi.jpg</Application_Screenshot_URL>
>>
>>     <Application_Icon_URL>http://www.nektra.com/images/ 
>> nektra_oeapi.gif</Application_Icon_URL>
>>
>>     <Application_XML_File_URL>http://www.nektra.com/products/oeapi/ 
>> pad/pad_file.xml</Application_XML_File_URL>
>>             </Application_URLs>
>>             <Download_URLs>
>>
>>     <Primary_Download_URL>http://www.nektra.com/products/oeapi/ 
>> oeapi_eval.zip</Primary_Download_URL>
>>                 <Secondary_Download_URL />
>>                 <Additional_Download_URL_1 />
>>                 <Additional_Download_URL_2 />
>>             </Download_URLs>
>>         </Web_Info>
>>     ...
>>     ...
>>     ...
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sebastian
>> -- 
>> Sebastian R. Wain
>> Nektra Advanced Computing
>> http://www.nektra.com
>>
>>
>> Aseem Mohanty wrote:
>>> 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
>>>>