[Developers] Attribution/Citation best practices?

[Iain Sproat]

+1 to more comprehensive data attribution.
Schema-wise is this already covered by the 'attribution' property in
'/type/link'? http://www.freebase.com/type/schema/type/linkIf so, then is
'/type/attribution' an appropriate place for a 'date accessed' property be
added? http://www.freebase.com/type/schema/type/attribution

Attribution in the client was discussed before (can't find the thread at
this moment) and I think the reason given for not having it was putting too
much complexity in the UI, which I tend to agree with.  However, I still
think it needs to be there - even if it hidden away and can only be exposed
in the client by pressing F8, for example.

Iain

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Raymond Yee <raymond.yee at gmail.com> wrote:

>  I agree with Tom that Freebase should support some sort of attribution
> mechanism.  When I upload data, I'd like to have the ability to say where I
> got the data from.  I was thinking that it might be useful to cook up a
> schema to do some attribution that would work for at least my own purposes
> -- but attribution support would be nice to have system-wide.
>
> -Raymond
>
>
> Tom Morris wrote:
>
> So I take it that the lack of response means that nothing like this
> exists, at least in written form.  Is it seen as something useful and
> worth developing or is the assumption that Metaweb will do all the
> bulk data loads and can deal with this type of thing as an internal
> matter?
>
> Tom
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>  Data provenance is key to almost any type of research and good
> citations/attribution are what allows a researcher to follow the
> provenance back and figure out whether or not they should trust a
> piece of information.
>
> In looking at what the Bulk Data Operations do, it appears that there
> some underlying machinery in place to do most or all of what's needed,
> but I haven't seen any documentation or recommended "best practices"
> for applications which are doing data loading.
>
> What should we be doing to make sure that the data we load is
> attributed properly?  While it's fun having big numbers against my
> name on the leaderboard, I'd really like to be able to point at the
> external data source that was used and include things like the date it
> was accessed, etc.  Is there a little cookbook entry someplace on how
> to do this?
>
> There's a similar issue for individual data entry.  I bet a lot of the
> structured data is coming from people transcribing Wikipedia blurbs,
> yet there's no way for them to indicate this, or the data of the
> Wikipedia article, as they do the data entry.  I little UI flag that
> they could click to say "I'm transcribing from Wikipedia" might help
> resolve conflicting information later.
>
> Tom
>
>
>
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