Comments on: Metabase: Opinions from anyone about anything http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/261/metabase-opinions-from-anyone-about-anything/ Whatever comes to mind Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:38:19 +0000 hourly 1 By: david http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/261/metabase-opinions-from-anyone-about-anything/comment-page-1/#comment-204 david Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:23:14 +0000 http://www.dagolden.com/?p=261#comment-204 As I said, there are some similarities to other knowledge systems. One big difference I can see is that freebase looks like it is trying to be authoritative, whereas Metabase is quite happy to have hundreds of different opinions about any particular fact and let some other application sort out what it means. As I said, there are some similarities to other knowledge systems. One big difference I can see is that freebase looks like it is trying to be authoritative, whereas Metabase is quite happy to have hundreds of different opinions about any particular fact and let some other application sort out what it means.

]]> By: Pedro Melo http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/261/metabase-opinions-from-anyone-about-anything/comment-page-1/#comment-203 Pedro Melo Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:30:44 +0000 http://www.dagolden.com/?p=261#comment-203 The Metabase concept looks a lot like the base of freebase.com. They allow you to add facts to the database, but in a structured mode, with classes. See for example the edit mode of the Larry Wall page: http://www.freebase.com/edit/topic/en/larry_wall The cool part of the freebase model is the query capabilities. Look at the parallax query application: http://blog.freebase.com/2008/08/12/introducing-freebase-parallax/ Best regards, The Metabase concept looks a lot like the base of freebase.com. They allow you to add facts to the database, but in a structured mode, with classes.

See for example the edit mode of the Larry Wall page:

http://www.freebase.com/edit/topic/en/larry_wall

The cool part of the freebase model is the query capabilities. Look at the parallax query application:

http://blog.freebase.com/2008/08/12/introducing-freebase-parallax/

Best regards,

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