Well the main difference is that you can install SMW on your webserbver because it's a plugin for MediaWiki, and Freebase is a knowledgebase that has been made by Metaweb (now Google) and is closed source.
You may also be interested in Wikidata and Dbpedia by the way :) ----- Yury Katkov, WikiVote On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:54 AM, Al <[email protected]> wrote: > Can anyone give their general opinion between the SMW and Freebase? > Strengths and weaknesses? > Future outlook? > Ease of development? > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
