[Developers] exporting freebase structure as an OWL/Protege file

[Ravi Iyer]

Hi all....

I'm exploring the idea of using the Freebase ontology for a project
I'm working on, but I'd like to be able to manipulate the ontology.
I'm used to using Protege to do such things.

Is there an easy way to export Freebase into OWL and then to Protege?

So far, I've found these 2 threads:
Discussion supporting RDF/OWL version of Freebase->
http://www.freebase.com/discuss/threads/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000459801e#/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000005b8645a
A snapshot of some Freebase types in OWL->
http://lists.freebase.com/pipermail/developers/2007-October/000806.html

I suppose I could write a program to create such an ontology
export....but I'd hate to redo something that's already been done.

Thanks!
Ravi

ps. Thanks, MetaWeb, for a wonderful project....