[Developers] Freebase as Linked Data

Wed Oct 29 12:30:47 UTC 2008

Awesome, I had no idea this was about to happen. :)

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 13:07, Ed Summers <ehs at pobox.com> wrote:
> 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
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John Bäckstrand