[Developers] Measurement types

[Tom Morris]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:06 PM, James Taylor <jame0taylor at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi, I'm trying to write to the survival_rate topic (
> http://www.freebase.com/type/schema/medicine/survival_rate), but cannot
> figure out what types the properties "years" and "rate" are.  On this schema
> page they are typed as "Measurement (Year)" and "Measurement (Property)" but
> I can't find these types and/or don't know how to use them.  More
> specifically, when writing to the "disease_stage" property, the type (/medicine/disease_stage)
> is a useful thing to know.
>
> Does anyone know how to manage these types?


They're just floats.  You can gain more insight into how things are encoded
by using one of the Explore views (hit F8, scroll down, and click
Explorer/Explore2)
http://www.freebase.com/tools/explore/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000093db719 or
by using MQL and the query editor to dump the property that you're
interested in in raw form.

Tom
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