[Google phasing out Freebase, supporting Wikidata]

peter.suber's bookmarks 2014-12-31

Summary:

"When we publicly launched Freebase back in 2007, we thought of it as a "Wikipedia for structured data." So it shouldn't be surprising that we've been closely watching the Wikimedia Foundation's project Wikidata[1] since it launched about two years ago. We believe strongly in a robust community-driven effort to collect and curate structured knowledge about the world, but we now think we can serve that goal best by supporting Wikidata -- they’re growing fast, have an active community, and are better-suited to lead an open collaborative knowledge base. So we've decided to help transfer the data in Freebase to Wikidata, and in mid-2015 we’ll wind down the Freebase service as a standalone project. Freebase has also supported developer access to the data, so before we retire it, we’ll launch a new API for entity search powered by Google's Knowledge Graph...."

Link:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/109936836907132434202/posts/bu3z2wVqcQc

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Tags:

oa.new oa.google oa.freebase oa.wikidata oa.wikis oa.crowd

Date tagged:

12/31/2014, 15:11

Date published:

12/31/2014, 10:11