Freebase Gridworks 1.0 released [Was: Nice Data Cleansing Tool Demo]

Hi all,

We're happy to announce that Freebase Gridworks 1.0 is now available for 
download, and it is also released as open source software:

     Download, documentation, code, bugs:
http://code.google.com/p/freebase-gridworks/

     Mailing list:
http://groups.google.com/group/freebase-gridworks

Gridworks is a power tool that allows you to load data, understand it, 
clean it up, reconcile it internally, augment it with data coming from 
Freebase, and optionally contribute your data to Freebase for others to use.

If you have seen the screencasts mentioned earlier [1], i.e.,

    Introduction: http://vimeo.com/10081183
    Faceting: http://vimeo.com/10287824

please know that there have been significant changes made to the 
software from the feedback of our alpha testers. The most important 
changes are the ability to add data from Freebase into your data sets, 
and the ability to load your data into Freebase (sandbox only for now). 
Data loads through Gridworks can be tracked here

http://gridworks-loads.freebaseapps.com/

Please try out Gridworks and join us on the mailing list mentioned above 
for discussion!

David

[1] 
http://lists.freebase.com/pipermail/freebase-discuss/2010-March/000860.html



On Mar/28/10 8:31 am, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
> All,
>
> A very nice data cleansing tool from David and Co. at Freebase.
>
> CSVs are clearly the dominant data format in the structured open data 
> realm. This tool deals with ETL very well. Of course, for those who 
> appreciate OWL, a lot of what's demonstrated in this demo is also 
> achievable via "context rules". Bottom line (imho), nice tool that 
> will only aid improving Web of Linked Data quality at the data set 
> production stage.
>
> Links:
>
> 1. http://vimeo.com/10081183 -- Freebase Gridworks
>