{"id":2005,"date":"2007-03-10T22:05:41","date_gmt":"2007-03-11T03:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=250"},"modified":"2007-03-10T22:05:41","modified_gmt":"2007-03-11T03:05:41","slug":"freebase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/10\/freebase.html","title":{"rendered":"FreeBase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freebase.com\/\">Freebase<\/a> is (or will be, if you are like me and waiting for an invite) an online behemoth of a database.\u00a0 Imagine taking Wikipedia and having users create links to related information, so that you can tap into the information and relationships as you would within a database; you would have the start of what Freebase can be.<\/p>\n<p>This has the potential to be incredible.\u00a0 There is a tightrope that the creators have to walk, however, as they try to find the balance between keeping things controlled, and allowing users to add\/change the environment.\u00a0 Too much of one or the other, and this expanded knowledge base becomes trivialized or restricted.<\/p>\n<p>See this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/03\/09\/technology\/09data.html?ex=1331182800&amp;en=1cf5436797019f52&amp;ei=5124&amp;partner=permalink&amp;exprod=permalink\">New York Times article<\/a> for a great description.<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/03\/09\/this-is-cool-unless-it-achieves-consciousness-and-kills-us-all\/\">TechCrunch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freebase is (or will be, if you are like me and waiting for an invite) an online behemoth of a database.\u00a0 Imagine taking Wikipedia and having users create links to related information, so that you can tap into the information &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/10\/freebase.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2951,2952,2954,2977],"tags":[3342,3343],"class_list":["post-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-online-databases","category-online-services","category-open-access","category-web-design","tag-new-york-times","tag-online-behemoth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sSU5g-freebase","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}