[Developers] Freebase object browser

[Jim Weaver]

Thanks Will (and Mark CE for pointing out this problem).  Oh, and thanks
Alex Flett for originally telling me to use "optional":true in the "any"
blocks (looks like I missed one though).

The updated Freebase Browser app is at the following link, and by the
way it is Mac OSX with JRE 1.5+ friendly now:

http://jmentor.com/JavaFX/JFXfreebaseBrowser.jnlp

I appreciate everyone's time and input on this, and would like more
suggestions on how to make this a more useful tool for all of us.  The
next two items I'll add, unless anyone thinks of higher priorities, are:

1) Implement freebase-suggest like functionality.  I'm considering
putting doing that in an additional "Search" textfield on the tool bar
or in a separate dialog box.  Any preferences?

2) Dynamically creating a 2D graphical map of the freebase category
ontology with a "fish eye lens" that magnifies the portion of the map in
the lens.  I haven't focused at all here yet, so I don't yet know some
of the basic things like:
  - Can the Category hierarchy (that starts on the Data page) be
ascertained by using MQL queries?
  - Does each node in this higher level classification have only one
parent (is it a taxonomy), or should I be thinking more in terms of an
ontology (nodes in this higher level can have multiple parents, related
nodes, etc. I'm of course going to study the freebase website, etc. for
this info, but any input/insights you have would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Jim Weaver


-----Original Message-----
From: will.moffat at gmail.com [mailto:will.moffat at gmail.com] On Behalf Of
Will Moffat
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 10:58 AM
To: Jim Weaver
Cc: developers at freebase.com
Subject: Re: [Developers] Freebase object browser

Hi Jim,

>     "/type/reflect/any_reverse":[{

You need to add "optional":true to this part. Poor Robbie hasn't
been linked to by anyone and so your query fails.
You can see the (current) lack of incoming links here:
http://www.freebase.com/view/explore/topic/en/robbie_fowler

regards,
--Will