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Chris Bizer from the DBpedia project <a
href="http://www.mail-archive.com/dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00483.html">has
said</a> that he is working on linking Freebase and DBpedia data
together and that he will be making that dataset available soon. Once
that dataset is available I'd like to load it into Freebase using my
ontology mapping types like I did in <a
href="http://www.freebase.com/view/en/bill_gates?domain=/base/ontologies">this
example</a>. This should make a lot of other data mapping projects
possible.<br>
<br>
As you suspected, there needs to be existing types and properties in
Freebase before you can import any data. The problem is that DBpedia
has a lot of different properties and not all of them can be easily
mapped onto Freebase types. However, the Freebase folks crawl Wikipedia
pretty frequently so if there is a specific type of data that you would
like imported into Freebase they might be willing to add it to their
crawler for you.<br>
<br>
Shawn<br>
<br>
Ravi Iyer wrote:
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cite="mid:9c799d390811092254y66c1d994i921bc2b4c4b5bf1f@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Hi....<br>
<br>
I was browsing a few topics in Freebase and dbpedia and
it seems to me that while Freebases' structure makes it uniquely
useful, there appears to be a large amount of dbpedia data that isn't
in freebase.<br>
<br>
eg<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.freebase.com/view/en/bobby_rahal" target="_blank">http://www.freebase.com/view/en/bobby_rahal</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://dbpedia.org/page/Bobby_Rahal"
target="_blank">http://dbpedia.org/page/Bobby_Rahal</a><br>
<br>
I'm considering using the guid links to merge the data, but I thought
I'd ask what plans were already in place to import the dbpedia data
into freebase first. Or is it a
matter of modeling the data ahead of the import so that the dbpedia
data has
somewhere well structured to go (ie. there is no racecar driver type in
freebase)? apologies if this is covered somewhere obvious....<br>
<br>
Thanks for a great product....<br>
Ravi<br>
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