Meetup with Freebase, Redland and related technologies
- May 14, 2009 · 6:30 PM
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Freebase
Freebase is a social database about things you know and love. It's an open, shared database of the world's knowledge, a collaborative online collection of structured data harvested from many sources, including individual 'wiki' contribution. Freebase aims to create a global resource which allows people (and machines) to access common information more effectively. It is developed by the American software company Metaweb and has been running publicly since March 2007.
Freebase data is available for use under a Creative Commons “attribution” license, and an API, rdf endpoint, and database dump are provided for programmers.
Metaweb Technologies, Inc. is a US company based in San Francisco that is developing Freebase. The company was founded by Danny Hillis and Robert Cook as a spinoff of Applied Minds in July, 2005, and operated in stealth mode until 2007.
Redland
Redland is a set of free software C libraries that provide support for the Resource Description Framework (RDF).
* Modular, object based libraries and APIs for manipulating the RDF graph, triples, URIs and Literals.
* Storage for graphs in memory and persistently with Sleepycat/Berkeley DB, MySQL 3-5, PostgreSQL, AKT Triplestore, SQLite, files or URIs.
* Support for multiple syntaxes for reading and writing RDF as RDF/XML, N-Triples and Turtle Terse RDF Triple Language, RSS and Atom syntaxes via the Raptor RDF Parser Library.
* Querying with SPARQL and RDQL using the Rasqal RDF Query Library.
* Data aggregation and recording provenance support with Redland contexts.
* Language Bindings in Perl, PHP, Python and Ruby via the Redland Bindings package.
* Command line utility programs rdfproc (RDF), rapper (parsing) and roqet (query).
* Portable, fast and with no known memory leaks.
Dave Beckett, Free software/open source software developer and designer of HTTP web services and applications for metadata, content storage and content management. Expert in web metadata, XML, RDF, Semantic Web technology and web standards.
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Jamie Taylor
I've posted the slides that Colin and I presented to http://www.slideshare.net/jamie...
.Many thanks to everyone who attended and to David Huynh and Dave Beckett for presenting!
May 18, 2009
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Jason Monberg
great mix of fun demo (simile), pure tech (redland), adn interesting text+business (freebase).
good people, good tech, good pizza
May 15, 2009
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A former member
Here's the link to the family of data visualization widgets I talked about: http://www.simile-widgets.org/
May 15, 2009
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Glenn Gregory
Good meeting. I think that it is a good way to introduce emerging technology in the Bay area. That is, show some practical applications of the technology.
May 15, 2009
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Dave Beckett
My slides are at http://www.dajobe.org/talks/200...
- what I forgot to say was these are RDF-powered, it's got embedded GRDDLable rdf, so you can use the slides as a graph too...May 15, 2009
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Peter Berger
Really enjoyed all the presentation and the interaction with all the presenters. Big thanks to Metaweb for supplying the Pizza.
May 15, 2009
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A former member
Great job Jamie -- loved the variety of topics and presenters. It was also wonderful to learn more about Freebase. I am excited to get started.
May 14, 2009
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Shamod Lacoul
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