[Developers] [Data-modeling] new Freebase application online: Thinkbase

[Christian Hirsch]

Hi Jeff,

thanks for the feedback.
1) and 2) are known bugs.
3) the theatrical adaptation should show, please check again. Awards don't
show up because I've filtered them out at the moment - this will change
soon. The combination of all film related types is due to the fact that I'm
using the key ("film") instead of the properties name ("Film actor", "Film
director", ...) - should be solved as soon as 2) is solved.
4) was also suggested by Ed. Possibly in a future release. Note that you are
already able to drag the nodes to different locations, even though this is
quite limited as they automatically rearrange.

Cheers,
Christian


On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 5:44 AM, Jeff Prucher <jeff at metaweb.com> wrote:

>  Very nice!  I notice a few things while playing around with it, though.
>
> 1) It doesn't seem to handle cases where more than one property has the
> same value. E.g., if you look at the film "Singin' in the Rain", Arthur
> Freed is only shown as "produced_by", even though he also contributed music.
>

> 2) It might be better to show the properties' display names, rather than
> keys, when you mouse over the links -- the key and display name often
> diverge over time, and the display name will usually be clearer.
>

> 3) It seems to handle co-types idiosyncratically. It doesn't display the
> theatrical adaptation of "Singin' in the Rain" (from the "adapted work"
> type, or the fact that it received a Golden Globe award (from the type
> "award-winning work"). For Gene Kelly, it appears that the properties for
> all his film-related types (film actor, film director, film writer, film
> producer) are handled by a single link, "film", making it impossible to
> differentiate which movies he did what on. His Oscar is also not displayed.
>

> 4) I'd love it if, when you dragged a node around on the screen, it stayed
> where you put it -- on crowded screens, the lines tend to intersect, making
> it hard to tell what's going on. If I could drag the nodes I was interested
> around, it would make it easier to tell what was going on.
>

> Jeff Prucher
>
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> *From:* data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com [mailto:
> data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com] *On Behalf Of *Christian Hirsch
> *Sent:* Sunday, May 18, 2008 7:04 PM
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> data-modeling at freebase.com
> *Subject:* [Data-modeling] new Freebase application online: Thinkbase
>
> Hi All,
>
> I've just added a new Freebase application: "Thinkbase" (
> http://thinkbase.cs.auckland.ac.nz)
>
> Thinkbase is a visual navigation and exploration tool for Freebase. The
> application is divided into two frames. The left frame displays an
> interactive visual representation of the Freebase contents and its semantic
> relationships in the form of a graph. Each node in the graph represents a
> Freebase article. The right frame displays the corresponding articles in
> Freebase. Further features, such as expanding / collapsing nodes and
> performing a search in Wikipedia or Google, are accessible through the
> context menu (right click on nodes). See the 'About' page for more details.
>
> Here is the Freebase apps entry:
> http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000083ce2b8
>
> Feedback very welcome :)
>
> Cheers,
> Christian Hirsch
>
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