[Developers] Introducing ids.freebaseapps.com

[Stefano Mazzocchi]

One of the interesting pieces of the Freebase dataset that not many 
people know about is the fact that when we harvest or link data from 
various sources, we retain their original identifiers and also the 
uri_templates that we can use to remap those local identifiers back to 
worldwide web identifiers.

Since this is a very useful feature, I've spent a little time to make 
this information easier to use and create an Acre app that is capable of 
taking either a freebase id and return all the equivalent URIs for that 
concept or get a URI and try to find all the equivalent URIs.

NOTE: The service is powered by both Freebase and SameAs 
(http://www.sameAs.org) and therefore is capable of surfacing all known 
equivalent identifiers for a given topic or URI starting from freebase 
and then via its mappings with dbpedia with the rest of the existing 
'linking open data' effort.

It also offers a JSONP service so that you can access it from your own 
web pages if you need to do so.

Find it at:

  http://ids.freebaseapps.com/

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Stefano Mazzocchi                              Application Catalyst
Metaweb Technologies, Inc.                      stefano at metaweb.com
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