[okfn-discuss] freebase: another new open knowledge/open data service

[Rufus Pollock]

Several people[^1] from the 'open' world have posted about freebase 
(http://www.freebase.com):


[^1]: [Glyn 
Moody](http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2007/03/metaweb-not-betterweb.html) 
  and [Peter 
Suber](http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2007_03_04_fosblogarchive.html)


 > Freebase is an open, shared database of the world's knowledge....
 >
 > Free + Database = Freebase
 >
 > It's about film, sports, politics, music, science and everything else 
all connected together. Our contributors are collecting data from all 
over the internet to build a massive, collaboratively-edited database of 
cross-linked data. Its a big job and we're just getting started.
 >
 > How free?
 >
 > Really free. We want to make it possible for you to add high quality 
structured information to your websites, mashups and applications 
without worrying about restrictive corporate licenses. All data is 
licensed Creative Commons Attribution. We only ask that you link back to us.

What do people think of this? I'd certainly be interested to see their 
codebase given recent discussions on collaborative development of 
structured data.

Regards,

Rufus

PS: I also just got round to posting up some comments on swivel and many 
eyes (two web-based data visualization services):

   http://blog.okfn.org/2007/03/12/storing-and-visualizing-open-data-ii/