[Developers] Freebase as Linked Data

Wed Oct 29 12:07:29 UTC 2008

Hi there from a new subscriber -- I just saw the news over on the
linking-open-data list [1] that you all have made Freebase into a
linked-data hub [2]! This is _really_ exciting news.

I was wondering if I could make two suggestions about the
implementation so far. Would it be a quick fix to have the server use
a 303 instead of a 302 when redirecting from the URI for the thing to
the URI for the document?

uqbar:~ ed$ curl -I http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/en.blade_runner
HTTP/1.0 302 FOUND
Server: PasteWSGIServer/0.5 Python/2.4.4
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:10:11 GMT
content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
location: http://rdf.freebase.com/rdf/en/blade_runner
pragma: no-cache
cache-control: no-cache
Connection: close

Also, could the HTML views
(e.g.http://www.freebase.com/view/en/blade_runner) have a bit of
autodiscovery for the data view?

<head>
    ...
    <link rel="alternate" type="application/turtle"
href="http://rdf.freebase.com/rdf/en/blade_runner" title="rdf" />
   ...
</head>

This would allow agents that care about the RDF view to be able to
discover it while browsing the web of documents.

Congrats, you all are doing really inspiring work!

//Ed

PS. You can use the Vapour Linked Data Validator to test your
implementation if you want [3].

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-lod/2008Oct/0047.html
[2] http://rdf.freebase.com/
[3] http://idi.fundacionctic.org/vapour?vocabUri=http%3A%2F%2Frdf.freebase.com%2Fns%2Fen.blade_runner&classUri=http%3A%2F%2F&propertyUri=http%3A%2F%2F&instanceUri=http%3A%2F%2F&defaultResponse=dontmind