Comments on: How to make Freebase useful in the digital humanities? http://chnm2009.thatcamp.org/06/19/how-to-make-freebase-useful-in-the-digital-humanities/ The Humanities And Technology Camp Sat, 04 Jun 2011 13:00:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 By: ghbrett http://chnm2009.thatcamp.org/06/19/how-to-make-freebase-useful-in-the-digital-humanities/#comment-332 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:53:42 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=165#comment-332 I’m interested in FreeBase as well. Thanks for suggesting it.

]]> By: patrickmj http://chnm2009.thatcamp.org/06/19/how-to-make-freebase-useful-in-the-digital-humanities/#comment-331 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:59:16 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=165#comment-331 Love the idea! I haven’t explored FreeBase much at all, and would like to hear about how you’ve used their APIs

]]> By: Arden Kirkland http://chnm2009.thatcamp.org/06/19/how-to-make-freebase-useful-in-the-digital-humanities/#comment-330 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:39:18 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=165#comment-330 Raymond – I don’t really have a specific format in mind – I’d have to learn more about how Freebase works to figure that out. I have a database of a historic costume collection that I’m trying to share with students, and I’m experimenting with many different tools. I’ve worked on making my data Dublin Core / VRA compatible, but there’s a lot of data that doesn’t fit neatly into those formats. I think more flexibility is needed for adding information that is specific to what my colleagues and I want to teach about these objects.

]]> By: Jeanne Kramer-Smyth http://chnm2009.thatcamp.org/06/19/how-to-make-freebase-useful-in-the-digital-humanities/#comment-329 Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:22:56 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=165#comment-329 Someone tweeted about wanting to chart when women were first admitted to various medical schools. I decided to go on step further and requested that Freebase add a way to capture ‘gender enrollment’ for all educational institutions. This was added in short order and can be seen in action on this page:
www.freebase.com/view/en/wesleyan_university

There appear to now be 29 entries related to gender enrollment:
www.freebase.com/view/education/gender_enrollment

This could be used as an example of taking a research question, framing it as structured data and then (for the moment anyway) hoping that people at large populate the data you want.

I won’t be at THATcamp this year – but couldn’t resist adding to the conversation!

]]> By: rdhyee http://chnm2009.thatcamp.org/06/19/how-to-make-freebase-useful-in-the-digital-humanities/#comment-328 Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:10:55 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=165#comment-328 Arden — when you say “teaching objects”, do you have a specific format for the data in mind?

]]> By: Arden Kirkland http://chnm2009.thatcamp.org/06/19/how-to-make-freebase-useful-in-the-digital-humanities/#comment-327 Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:36:05 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=165#comment-327 I’ve always wondered about Freebase – I’m interested to see what you’ve been doing with it. It definitely relates to my interest in “quick and dirty” tools for educators to represent teaching objects with specific data for specific disciplines (of course, quick and clean would be even better).

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