[Developers] Announcing freebase-utils - data reconciliation and loading utilities

[Raymond Yee]

Thanks, Tom, for making your code available to the entire community!  I 
for one will certainly be studying your code.  As you know, I've made 
use of your work on the Congressional Biography ID already.

-Raymond

Tom Morris wrote:
> I've created a Google Code project to hold some of the utilities that
> I put together for various projects.
>
>    http://code.google.com/p/freebase-utils/
>
> The initial code includes:
>
> 1. Loader for the U.S. National Register of Historic Places database
> from the National Park Service.  It demonstrates the use of dbfpy to
> read xBase files, parsing KML files, some name munging and
> reconciliation techniques (including querying Wikipedia), and, of
> course, a wide variety of MQL read and write queries.
>
> 2. Congressional Biography ID loader - This focuses more on various
> types of personal name transformations to find the correct person in
> Freebase.
>
> These were written as one-time throwaway programs (yes, I'm old enough
> to know better), so they're a bit of a mess, but I've started the work
> to refactor some of the useful bits out so they can be reused.  If
> nothing else, they provide complete working examples that were
> actually used in production.
>
> In addition to the refactoring work, I'll be adding information to the
> wiki describing the process of doing these types of loads.
>
> All the code has been released under the Eclipse Public License so it
> can be used for commercial work as long as you contribute back your
> improvements to the common code.
>
> I plan to add to this collection over time and am happy to have others
> contribute, so if you have code that you think would be a useful
> addition, let me know.
>
> Tom
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