On 10/1/15 5:51 PM, James Heald wrote:
> Out of interest, is there still a live Freebase SPARQL endpoint ?
>
> And is it kept up to date with which items have been matched to
> Wikidata ?
>
> Both of these would be useful, I think.
>
>   --  James.

http://lod.openlinksw.com/sparql does contain data from Freebase and
Wikidata.


Kingsley
>
>
> On 01/10/2015 20:25, Thomas Tanon wrote:
>> It's me.
>>
>> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Tpt
>> https://twitter.com/Tpt93
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>>> Le 1 oct. 2015 à 21:10, Stéphane Corlosquet <[email protected]>
>>> a écrit :
>>>
>>> Hi Denny,
>>>
>>> This is great work! who is Tpt?
>>>
>>> Steph.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Denny Vrandečić
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> as you know, Tpt has been working as an intern this summer at
>>> Google. He finished his work a few weeks ago and I am happy to
>>> announce today the publication of all scripts and the resulting data
>>> he has been working on. Additionally, we publish a few novel
>>> visualizations of the data in Wikidata and Freebase. We are still
>>> working on the actual report summarizing the effort and providing
>>> numbers on its effectiveness and progress. This will take another
>>> few weeks.
>>>
>>> First, thanks to Tpt for his amazing work! I have not expected to
>>> see such rich results. He has exceeded my expectations by far, and
>>> produced much more transferable data than I expected. Additionally,
>>> he also was working on the primary sources tool directly and helped
>>> Marco Fossati to upload a second, sports-related dataset (you can
>>> select that by clicking on the gears icon next to the Freebase item
>>> link in the sidebar on Wikidata, when you switch on the Primary
>>> Sources tool).
>>>
>>> The scripts that were created and used can be found here:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/google/freebase-wikidata-converter
>>>
>>> All scripts are released under the Apache license v2.
>>>
>>> The following data files are also released. All data is released
>>> under the CC0 license (in order to make this explicit, a comment has
>>> been added to the start of each file, stating the copyright and the
>>> license. If any script dealing with the files hiccups due to that
>>> line, simply remove the first line).
>>>
>>> https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-primary-sources/data/freebase-mapped-missing.tsv.gz
>>>
>>> The actual missing statements, including URLs for sources, are in
>>> this file. This was filtered against statements already existing in
>>> Wikidata, and the statements are mapped to Wikidata IDs. This
>>> contains about 14.3M statements (214MB gzipped, 831MB unzipped).
>>> These are created using the mappings below in addition to the
>>> mappings already in Wikidata. The quality of these statements is
>>> rather mixed.
>>>
>>> Additional datasets that we know meet a higher quality bar have been
>>> previously released and uploaded directly to Wikidata by Tpt,
>>> following community consultation.
>>>
>>> https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-primary-sources/data/additional-mapping.pairs.gz
>>>
>>> Contains additional mappings between Freebase MIDs and Wikidata
>>> QIDs, which are not available in Wikidata. These are mappings based
>>> on statistical methods and single interwiki links. Unlike the first
>>> set of mappings we had created and published previously (which
>>> required multiple interwiki links at least), these mappings are
>>> expected to have a lower quality - sufficient for a manual process,
>>> but probably not sufficient for an automatic upload. This contains
>>> about 3.4M mappings (30 MB gzipped, 64MB unzipped).
>>>
>>> https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-primary-sources/data/freebase-new-labels.tsv.gz
>>>
>>> This file includes labels and aliases for Wikidata items which seem
>>> to be currently missing. The quality of these labels is
>>> undetermined. The file contains about 860k labels in about 160
>>> languages, with 33 languages having more than 10k labels each (14MB
>>> gzipped, 32MB unzipped).
>>>
>>> https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-primary-sources/data/freebase-reviewed-missing.tsv.gz
>>>
>>> This is an interesting file as it includes a quality signal for the
>>> statements in Freebase. What you will find here are ordered pairs of
>>> Freebase mids and properties, each indicating that the given pair
>>> were going through a review process and likely have a higher quality
>>> on average. This is only for those pairs that are missing from
>>> Wikidata. The file includes about 1.4M pairs, and this can be used
>>> for importing part of the data directly (6MB gzipped, 52MB unzipped).
>>>
>>> Now anyone can take the statements, analyse them, slice and dice
>>> them, upload them, use them for your own tools and games, etc. They
>>> remain available through the primary sources tool as well, which has
>>> already led to several thousand new statements in the last few weeks.
>>>
>>> Additionally, Tpt and I created in the last few days of his
>>> internship a few visualizations of the current data in Wikidata and
>>> in Freebase.
>>>
>>> First, the following is a visualization of the whole of Wikidata:
>>>
>>> https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-primary-sources/data/wikidata-color.png
>>>
>>>
>>> The visualization needs a bit of explanation, I guess. The y-axis
>>> (up/down) represents time, the x-axis (left/right) represents space
>>> / geolocation. The further down, the closer you are to the present,
>>> the further up the more you go in the past. Time is given in a
>>> rational scale - the 20th century gets much more space than the 1st
>>> century. The x-axis represents longitude, with the prime meridian in
>>> the center of the image.
>>>
>>> Every item is being put at its longitude (averaged, if several) and
>>> at its earliest point of time mentioned on the item. For items
>>> without either, neighbouring items propagate their value to them
>>> (averaging, if necessary). This is done repeatedly until the items
>>> are saturated.
>>>
>>> In order to understand that a bit better, the following image offers
>>> a supporting grid: each line from left to right represents a century
>>> (up to the first century), and each line from top to bottom
>>> represent a meridian (with London in the middle of the graph).
>>>
>>> https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-primary-sources/data/wikidata-grid-color.png
>>>
>>>
>>> The same visualizations has also been created for Freebase:
>>>
>>> https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-primary-sources/data/freebase-color.png
>>>
>>> https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-primary-sources/data/freebase-grid-color.png
>>>
>>>
>>> In order to compare the two graphs, we also overlaid them over each
>>> other. I will leave the interpretation to you, but you can easily
>>> see the strengths of weaknesses of both knowledge bases.
>>>
>>> https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-primary-sources/data/wikidata-red-freebase-green.png
>>>
>>> https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-primary-sources/data/freebase-red-wikidata-green.png
>>>
>>>
>>> The programs for creating the visualizations are all available in
>>> the Github repository mentioned above (plenty of RAM is recommended
>>> to run it).
>>>
>>> Enjoy the visualizations, the data and the script! Tpt and I are
>>> available to answer questions. I hope this will help with
>>> understanding and analysing some of the results of the work that we
>>> did this summer.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Denny
>>>
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>>>
>>> -- 
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