[Freebase-discuss] simple topic dump

[Arthur van Hoff]

Hi,

I am using the freebase-simple-topic-dump to mirror a local topic database.
I have a few additional fields that I would love to see included in this
dump:

- aliases - these help us find topics using the various aliases
- image - the main image associated with the topic
- gender - if the topic is a /people/person
- lat/long - if the topic is a /location/location
- timestamp - lastest update time of this simple topic row
- redirect - if this mid is superseded by a new mid

Right now I need to run separate and relatively expensive MQL query to get
the aliases, image, gender, and lat/long and join the output with a
map/reduce job back into a single topic. It would be much easier if that was
part of the simple topic dump.

Note that I can't get all the data I need from just the full quadruples
dump. It does not include the description, timestamp. and I can't guess the
correct topic image because the order of lists is not preserved (I believe).

By the way, 179 aliases contain \\", which should probably be just a ". For
example: http://www.freebase.com/view/m/09k79cw

Thanks.

-- 
Arthur van Hoff
arthur.van.hoff at gmail.com
650-283-0842
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