[Developers] Built With Freebase: Creative Commons Car Pictures

[Tom Morris]

Looks cool.

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Paul Houle <paul at ontology2.com> wrote:

> I've still got some work to do on the site,  but I'm already starting
> the o.e. work for a project that's going to be a hundred times larger.

o.e. ?

> One of the interesting things that came out of the project was that
> there were pretty big holes in both the freebase and dbpedia taxonomy of
> cars:  in particular,  there are a lot of cars in Freebase that don't
> have types on them.  (Freebase's car data seems to be strongest for
> recent cars that are covered in fueleconomy.gov.)   When it comes to
> older cars,   I had to use a crawl & filter strategy to expand the car
> categories to get a good list.  Once I get the last few false positives
> out,  I'd be interested in using the Freebase API to push the missing
> types into fbase.  I'm also interested in helping freebasers find the
> images that are in my system.

I'd be interested in:

- A relative comparison of the strengths and weaknesses of Freebase as
compared to DBpedia, if there's more to it than what's described above

- Feedback/suggestions on facilities that Freebase could implement to
make this type of resolution project easier (and capture the results
automatically).  Things like the candidate identification that your
crawl did, as well as a way to crowd source fixing the false positives
and confirming marginal scoring resolutions.

Tom