Metaweb/Freebase is a technology company that developed Freebase, an online database containing information on millions of topics that can be used to build web applications. Freebase's data comes from sources like Wikipedia, music databases, and companies. It provides programming interfaces and a scalable data store. Startups and media companies use Freebase data in their applications and websites. The Freebase platform offers features like related topics, web links, and storing custom application data.
4. What is Metaweb?
• Technology company based in San Francisco
• 60 person team of engineers and software developers
• Well funded, long term outlook
• Focused on Freebase.com
5. What is Freebase?
• An database of “topics” - practical things like people, places,
business, movies, books, etc.
• A platform for building web applications with this data
• A community of users and companies, adding and grooming
data
13. The Freebase platform
• Programmer APIs - MQL, media services, geo-queries,
webpage templating
• “Graph” data store - in memory; highly-scaleable
• Extensive caching for additional scaling and performance
27. The Office (US) Leatherheads
TV Program Film
stars in starred in
John Krasinski
Person, Actor
28. The Office (US) Leatherheads
TV Program Film
stars in starred in
John Krasinski
Person, Actor
attended
Brown University
College/university
30. Sources of topic data
• Wikipedia
• Open sources (Musicbrainz, OpenLibrary, Netflix, etc.)
• Companies (Microsoft, WSJ, Juggle, Popstra)
• Freebase community
41. Web links
imdb.com en.wikipedia.org
/nm1150362 /john_krasinski
John Krasinski
Person, Actor
ew.com people.com
/ew/article/0,,476450,00.html /people/john_krasinski