[Developers] Built With Freebase: Creative Commons Car Pictures

[Kingsley Idehen]

Paul Houle wrote:
> I fused data from dbpedia and freebase to construct a taxonomy of 
> automobiles to build the following site:
>
> http://carpictures.cc/
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> The big picture is to make something like the Flickr Wrapper that 
> actually works.  I'd like to create a resolver where people can feed  
> dbpedia,  freebase and other identifiers that point to named entities 
> and get creative commons multimedia resources with very high precision.
>
> Any feedback?
>
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Paul,

Re. Car Taxonomy, note that we have Yago, UMBEL, and OpenCyc ontology 
and reasoning capability in place (live) at the following locations:

1. http://dbpedia.org -- DBpedia only instance with links to Freebase
2. http://lod.openlinksw.com -- this is the instance hosting the entire 
LOD cloud (includes Freebase)


Links:

1. http://umbel.org
2. http://sw.opencyc.com
3. http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/yago-naga/yago/

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Regards,

Kingsley Idehen	      Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
President & CEO 
OpenLink Software     Web: http://www.openlinksw.com