[Developers] Adding a webpage to a topic.

Scott Meyer sm at metaweb.com
Thu Jun 12 19:06:11 UTC 2008


Arthur van Hoff wrote:
> I understand, but that seems counter intuitive in the context of
> Freebase. Shouldn’t each webpage be described by a single unambiguous
> instance that can have properties such as author, copyright, title, etc?
> The URL could be a key to find this object.
> 
>  
> 
> If /common/topic/webpage is simply a URI, then why not make it a value
> type like /type/uri? The use of a compound value confused me in this case.

The webpage CVT associates a title with a url.  Since topics can have multiple
web pages, we need the CVT object to keep track of which URL goes with
which title.

If a topic was limited to a single web page, then, you're right: it would be
silly to have the CVT.

-Scott




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