- From: Oktie Hassanzadeh <oktie@cs.toronto.edu>
- Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:00:37 -0400
- To: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- CC: Sören Auer <auer@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>, public-lod@w3.org
Kingsley Idehen wrote: > > Oktie Hassanzadeh wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Sören Auer >> <auer@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote: >> >>> Hi Oktie, all, >>> >>> Great work you have done with LinkedMDB.org! >>> >>> >> >> Thanks Sören! >> >> >> >>> I would like to point you to another open movie data related >>> project: Open >>> Movie Database (http:/omdb.org), which contains very high quality >>> data and >>> is completely free and open. >>> >> >> >> We will soon add links to OMDB.org as well. We would also like to >> contribute to the OMDB by sending them back the links we find to other >> data sources (If I'm not making a mistake, most of the OMDB articles >> currently don't link to other related web sites). >> As a side note, we chose to start with freebase data since the number >> of movies on OMDB was around 9,000 when we started setting up >> LinkedMDB (as mentioned in our 2-page report) comparing with more than >> 38,000 freebase movies. Although OMDB is also growing fast, and has >> around 12,000 movies now. >> >> >> Regards, >> Oktie >> >> >> > Oktie, > > Is the Freebase community aware of this effort? > So far we have only briefly discussed our plan with Freebase people when they were giving a demo on Freebase in SIGMOD conference last June [1]. And they told us that their film category is going to grow significantly in the next few months. Regards, Oktie [1] http://blog.freebase.com/2008/06/06/freebase-at-sigmod/
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