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

[Christian Hirsch]

winners as well as nominees should show. The missing "written work"
connections will also show soon.

Christian


On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 4:58 AM, Jeff Prucher <jeff at metaweb.com> wrote:

>  The theatrical adaptation is showing; I must have just missed it before.
> I notice that the award is showing now too -- just winners for now, I'm
> guessing, since I don't see nominees elsewhere.  Re cotypes, I also noticed
> that "written work" is not showing up (see Brave New World (the book)), so
> that authors are not shown for their books, stories, etc. but written works
> are showing if you view the author.
>
> Jeff
>
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> *From:* developers-bounces at freebase.com [mailto:
> developers-bounces at freebase.com] *On Behalf Of *Christian Hirsch
> *Sent:* Monday, May 19, 2008 9:21 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: [Developers] [Data-modeling] new Freebase application
> online:Thinkbase
>
>   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
>>
>>  ------------------------------
>> *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
>> *To:* For discussions about MQL,Freebase API and apps built on Freebase;
>> 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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