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The Encylopedia of Life is going to contain information about every species on Earth. Freebase in going to be an open database of the World's information that anyone can edit.
These two projects seem like a match made in heaven. If the Encyclopedia of Life used Freebase as its database, everything in the Encyclopedia would automatically be available to other applications that wanted to slice and dice the same information.
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Destiny is my science fiction movie about the future of humanity. It's an epic, similar in breadth and scope to 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Why Freebase? It is a proprietary system and does not seem to be very open. Having explored it, I find I can do more with a semantic wiki. See, for one example in many, Semantic MediaWiki. Let's keep indexes open.
Posted by: Steven Forth | May 13, 2007 at 02:27 AM
Hi Steve,
All data in the Freebase, including the semantic structure itself, is licensed according to Creative Commons.
Cheers,
Graham
Posted by: Graham Glass | May 13, 2007 at 11:39 AM