[Developers] Freebase search

[Tom Morris]

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On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Alex Genadinik <genadinik at hotmail.com> wrote:

> There’s a nice search function on the homepage.
> Is it possible to set up a locally hosted programming interface that gives
> us equivalent information to the article lookup from a Freebase download?

Sure, it's just a matter of writing software.

> Would it give us the article title, the types that the article is labeled
> with, and the relationships that the article has to other articles? Is there
> a version of the download that includes the abstract of the article?

The download page includes a description of all the stuff that's
included (or you could just download the data and have a look at
what's there).

> And is it possible to do all these things with downloaded Freebase data?

Just a SMOP.

Tom