[Developers] Latest updates to the Freebase Schema Explorer

[Iain Sproat]

Great work Stefano, the diagram view is brilliant, and I'm finding it great
for querying my bases.
I have a(nother) feature request - could we get a diagram view at the
base/schema level?
It's a biggy, but would be v. useful (perhaps a graphviz image?).
 Basically, I had a number of properties across a number of types within a
base all of which had an expected type of 'color'.  I wanted to change this
expected type from 'color' to 'tincture', however I couldn't see at a quick
glance from the base view how many of my types linked to color, so had to go
through them one-by-one.

I did try to workaround this and look at the incoming properties to the
Color type, but ran into an error
http://schemas.freebaseapps.com/type?id=/visual_art/color
<http://schemas.freebaseapps.com/type?id=/visual_art/color>"TypeError: Can't
use instanceof on a non-object. at
/user/jdouglas/schemas/type<http://www.freebase.com/tools/appeditor/#app=/user/jdouglas/schemas&file=type&line=15>
 [15]".

Iain

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Stefano Mazzocchi <stefano at metaweb.com>wrote:

> Still at:
>
>  http://schemas.freebaseapps.com/
>
> But now with new features:
>
> - at the bottom of the page you can use our Freebase Suggest to look for
> bases or user domains by their name, all domains of a user, a type or a
> property
>
> - there are two ways of looking at a particular Type, the 'table view'
> which is how it was before and the new 'diagram view' which is more like
> I would draw them on a whiteboard if I had to explain it to somebody.
> You can switch the two views with the selector at the top right of the
> type page, but here's an example
>
>  http://schemas.freebaseapps.com/type2?id=/film/film
>
> - the 'diagram view' also contains the number of instances of the
> various types that relate to the current type under scrutiny.
>
> Note: if the 'view selector' is on the top left of your type view page
> instead of the top right, do a shift-reload so that your browser cache
> can get the new CSS style.
>
> Enjoy and keep the comments and suggestions coming since they help a lot.
>
> --
> Stefano Mazzocchi                              Application Catalyst
> Metaweb Technologies, Inc.                      stefano at metaweb.com
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