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by lawlesst
4111 days ago
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Freebase doesn't have an ontology in the Semantic Web sense. It's always been a specialized tool with non standard protocols like MQL. Schema.org is somewhat related but not tied whatsoever to Freebase. Wikidata is fully editable and has an ecosystem for updating data so concerns about stale data aren't valid. Since Wikipedia will be pulling from it (is already in some cases) you could argue that their will be more sunlight on the data. There's been a lot of code written against Freebase APIs (me included) but it isn't sad it's going away. It's the risk you take when relying on 3rd party services. I think your confusing short term developer convenience with a real loss of open data. |
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Lydia Pintscher (Wikidata manager) admits that the Wikipedia/Wikidata notability guideline is a real problem and the process of re-using Freebase data is slow: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/freebase-discuss/s_B...
How cares about an API, it's all about the data dump that is available for download and used to be updated monthly.
I am not sure what your agenda is, if you are somehow related to Wikidata or Google and why this is only your eight post in 1526days on HN. But one it cannot be denied that there is evident that the demise of Freebase will hurt us all (except Google) in the long term and a lot of data won't survive/be included in Wikidata.
(I do like Wikipedia, but I noticed their notability guidelines and some admins gone wrong do hurt for example the German Wikipedia a lot, which is actually shrinking as more pages get deleted than added. Some good projects from German Wikipedia like the Toolserver which hosts the map-data and the geo-database of all cities and landmarks are great. But Wikidata with its long development history should have been done by Wikimedia itself not Wikipedia Germany. It started from SemanticWiki research project and it took way too long and is still not that good) http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Blutet-Wikipedia-aus-..., http://www.heise.de/newsticker/foren/S-Artikel-schrumpfen/fo...