Freebase Workshop NYC 2009
From Freebase
- When: December 10th, 2009
- Where: Daylife's Offices 444 Broadway, Fifth Floor, New York, New York 10013
Contents |
Slides
Robert's slides and Jamie's slides are available on SlideShare. Will used live links (see below).
Metaweb Presenters
- Robert Cook - co-founder of Metaweb and SVP Platform Partnerships
- Jamie Taylor - Freebase’s Minister of Information and co-author of Programming the Semantic Web
- Will Moffat - Freebase Acre developer and integration expert
Agenda
| Time | Synopsis | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| 9:30 - 10:30
1 hour | Intro - Robert |
|
| 10:30 - 12:30
2 hours | Pre-packaged Freebase Solutions
Quick & easy ways to enhance your site using Freebase. |
|
| 12:30 - 1:15
45 min | Lunch | |
| 1:15 - 2:30
1 hour 15 min | Connecting your data to Freebase
An overview of the services that exist to get your data, or links to your data, into Freebase. |
|
| 2:30 - 3:30
1 hour | Freebase in the Data Service Ecosystem - Jamie
Mashing up the web, with Freebase as a hub. |
|
| 3:30 | Wrap up - Jamie |
|
| 3:30 - 5:00 | Office hours - Will & Jamie
After the end of the workshop, we'll still be available if you have any more questions about Freebase. |
Links
- If you use #-tags #freebase
Freebase Suggest
- http://www.freebase.com/home
- http://online.wsj.com/public/page/news-arts-movies-music.html
- http://www.contenttagger.org/
- http://www.freebase.com/docs/suggest
- http://acre.freebase.com/#app=/user/willmoffat/nyc&file=freebase-suggest-demo
TopicBlocks
- http://www.freebase.com/home
- http://dragnetslegacy.blogspot.com/
- http://www.freebase.com/widget/topic/en/ncis
- http://www.freebase.com/widget/topic/en/ncis?panes=full_info,article_props,image_props,related,image
Wordpress Plugin
- see Jamie's slides
Topic API + Acre
- http://acre.freebase.com/#app=/user/willmoffat/nyc&file=freebase-suggest-demo
- http://www.freebase.com/view/en/ncis
- http://www.freebase.com/experimental/topic/basic?id=/en/ncis
- http://acre.freebase.com/#app=/user/willmoffat/nyc&file=topic-api-demo
- http://www.freebase.com/experimental/topic/standard?id=/en/ncis
DIY Topic Page
- http://acre.freebase.com/#app=/user/willmoffat/nyc&file=index
- http://acre.freebase.com/#app=/user/willmoffat/nyc&file=topic-page-template
- http://www.freebase.com/docs/acre_api/acre.freebase
- Examples: star_trek_the_original_series sam_and_friends Query for spinoff spinoffs
Data Games
- see Robert's slides
Input Widgets
Connecting your data to Freebase
- http://data.labs.freebase.com/recon/
- http://data.labs.freebase.com/loader/
- http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=th_9sjWhPQjVOAjb6MdwseA&output=html
For More Info
- http://www.freebase.com/build - blog, developers mailing list, IRC
- http://www.freebase.com/developer
- http://freebase.markmail.org/
Feedback
From Will:
- pre-workshop survey: company, tech background, freebase username (so we can see if people get more engaged)
- Should have done group introduction
- Group background was varied, perhaps a 15min intro-to-freebase without questions would have been an efficient start
- Do we have a slide giving an overview of all the FB services?
- Slide showing our tech stack (and which parts are open source)?
- Skinning and customizing Freebase Suggest was well received. Maybe we should add some slick examples to the Suggest docs? Returning non-FB keys example?
- Wiki links worked well
- Need good slide to introduce Acre - diagram, purpose, code in graph, server on freebaseapps.com
- Show App Gallery - motivate learning Acre with cool apps!
- Need to show Acre flow first (starting Acre, login, creating app).
- Live coding is impossible, but uncommenting sections worked OK. search-step1, search-step2 might have worked better (no typing) and preserves steps for later reading.
- introduce script: acre.write('hello'), console.log('hello'), console.log(acre.request.params)
- templates: <div>hello</div>, $acre.request.params.id, ${ new Date() }, ${attr.blanket()}
- collect and upload slides immediately after talk
