[Developers] Acre app - dejavu / recurring events helper

[Kirrily Robert]

On May 9, 2009, at 7:17 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote:

> Hey all,
> I'm currently going through a whole bunch of cycling events and  
> adding a lot of recurring ones.
>
> IE, the Tour de France has been going for a long while, and it's  
> pretty tedious to hand-edit lists of "instance of Tour de France"  
> using the existing importer.
>
> So, I made dejavu, a tool for mass creating a lot of annual events.  
> It still needs polish/usability love, but I'd love to hear any  
> feedback, ideas, etc
>
> http://dejavu.freebaseapps.com/
>

Nice!  I, too, like what you've done with the frames -- quick and  
easy, gets things mostly done.  One downside I've found, though, is if  
you're working with a recurring event that doesn't already have topics  
in Freebase/Wikipedia/etc, you don't get dates for them.  For example,  
I loaded instances of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and  
though they're called "1999 Melbourne International Comedy Festival"  
and the like, they don't have dates.

I just talked to Jeff and we just decided to make start date and end  
date disambiguators on Event, so that should help there.  You could  
make a second field for start date which is the year, which will help  
at least a bit.  Then people who know the exact dates can get more  
specific if they want.

Hopefully this disambiguator thing will also help expose missing data  
on other topic pages on Freebase, and encourage people to fill stuff  
in without going to the event's topic page itself.

K.

-- 
Kirrily Robert
Freebase Community Director
kirrily at metaweb.com
http://freebase.com/




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