I can't wait to get my hands on Gridworks - very excited (sad, I know), but
think potential for checking/correcting metadata and adding links to
relevant Freebase topics is very exciting

If anyone hasn't seen the demos of this yet, suggest having a look at the
screencasts at
http://blog.freebase.com/2010/03/26/preview-freebase-gridworks/

Owen

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Sean Hannan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Also, David Huynh (of Gridworks and Freebase Parallax fame) dropped into
> IRC last week asking about MARC4J and its possible use with Gridworks.
>
> Things are afoot.
>
> -Sean
>
>
> On Apr 22, 2010, at 7:27 AM, Owen Stephens wrote:
>
> > Thought that some on the list might be interested in various discussions
> > happening on the Freebase email list at the moment:
> >
> > Firstly some stuff on dealing with ISBNs
> >
> http://lists.freebase.com/pipermail/freebase-discuss/2010-April/thread.html
> ,
> > and secondly (and more interesting I think) work on loading a University
> > Library catalogue (see the link for emails with the subject "UniversityX
> > Book Load<
> http://lists.freebase.com/pipermail/freebase-discuss/2010-April/001200.html
> >",
> > and also this page http://wiki.freebase.com/wiki/UniversityX_Load),
> which
> > includes work on mapping place of publication to existing Freebase
> location
> > information (
> >
> http://lists.freebase.com/pipermail/freebase-discuss/2010-April/001218.html
> )
> >
> > Owen
> >
> > --
> > Owen Stephens
> > Owen Stephens Consulting
> > Web: http://www.ostephens.com
> > Email: [log in to unmask]
>



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