[Developers] what's the difference between a short text input and a machine readable string?

[Raymond Yee]

Hi everyone,

What's the difference between a "short text input" (/type/text) vs a 
"machine readable string"  (/type/rawstring)?  I can't find a definitive 
answer in the docs.  I looked at

http://www.sandbox-freebase.com/type/schema/type/text
http://www.sandbox-freebase.com/type/schema/type/rawstring

and also  http://www.freebase.com/view/en/rawstring  (which says 
"Rawstring represents a string of bytes with no associated language 
specification. The length of the string must not exceed 4k bytes. 
 Rawstrings are used for small amounts of data that are intended to be 
machine readable.")

but am still unclear about what the differences are.  
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/core_property_types doesn't seem to say 
what the diffs are either.  Thanks in advance for your help!

BTW, In trying to figure out the differences, I ended turning to  
schemas.freebaseapps.com because the #1 return for a google search on 
/type/rawstring is 
http://schemas.freebaseapps.com/type?id=%2Ftype%2Frawstring   However, 
this page returns an error:


  Error in type

Unhandled exception: 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=9>: 
9

    * /user/jdouglas/schemas/type
      <http://www.freebase.com/tools/appeditor/#app=/user/jdouglas/schemas&file=type&line=9>:
      9


-Raymond

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