[Developers] Importing data from World of Spectrum

[John Giannandrea]

Philip Kendall wrote:
> 1) Is this something which it is a good idea to upload to Freebase?  
> I'd
>    obviously test everything in the sandbox first.

yes, this would be a fine candidate for freebase, assuming that the
data you plan to upload is compatible with the Creative Commons  
Attribution license.

We have some general guidelines here:
http://www.freebase.com/view/?id=%239202a8c04000641f80000000010c2cf1

> 2) If so, the thing which is worrying me most is accidently creating
>    a large number duplicate topics for things like software houses,
>    where the Freebase entry happens to have a slightly different name
>    from the name used by World of Spectrum. Two questions here,  
> really:
>    * How much should I worry about this? (ie should I apply a tactic
>      of upload it all and worry about merges later, or should I spend
>      a non-trivial amount of time trying to match things up first?).

We have some tools in house (that we plan to release when they are
further along) that can help with this.  If you would like to contact  
me off
list we can probably help with some of this reconciliation.

-jg