[Developers] Announcing the Freebase Schema Explorer

[Tom Morris]

That looks cool.  I've actually been meaning to ask for a while about what
types of modeling tools people use.  Perhaps I'm just a lightweight, but I
tend to gravitate towards graphical modeling tools, so that's the style I
was thinking of.  Anything in the works along those lines?

I was toying with the idea of doing an XMI exporter for schemas or perhaps
an MQL plugin for the ArgoEclipse modeling tool that I'm project lead for,
but that seems like more work than I could justify for the benefit right
now.

I'm familiar with Thinkbase http://thinkbase.cs.auckland.ac.nz/ which can
visualize anything in the graph, types as well as instances, and it does a
little bit better job of showing more stuff on the screen at a time, but I'd
really like something with a) even higher information density (ie more types
on the screen at once) and b) a layout that I could control.  The whole
spring force thing is fun to watch, but not really the best layout strategy
for schemas.

Tom
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