Librarian Avengers » Freebase http://librarianavengers.org Pugilistic Periodicalistas Sat, 21 Apr 2012 03:46:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Daily Hilarity http://librarianavengers.org/2009/12/daily-hilarity/ http://librarianavengers.org/2009/12/daily-hilarity/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:09:04 +0000 Erica Firment http://librarianavengers.org/?p=896
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    Things today that made me laugh until I snorted:

      • Translating a boring work conversation into hula
      • Faygo Rock n Rye soda exploding in a Last Stand sort of way inside Chuck’s motorcycle case
      • Blurting out “stranger danger!” when surprise-hugged by my friend Rayne in the subway
      • Getting my butt handed to me by the office Galaga machine
      • My father-in-law’s introduction to the tapioca lumps in bubble tea
      • My new Frog Hat
      • Wearing my new Frog Hat on a video conference and demanding to be taken seriously

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    ]]>     http://librarianavengers.org/2009/12/daily-hilarity/feed/ 2     Freebase Hack Day II: The Return of Hack Day http://librarianavengers.org/2009/06/freebase-hack-day-ii-the-return-of-hack-day/ http://librarianavengers.org/2009/06/freebase-hack-day-ii-the-return-of-hack-day/#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:56:40 +0000 Erica Firment http://librarianavengers.org/?p=856
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    Librarian?

    Data junkie? Obsessive compulsive? Come to the Freebase hack day on July 11, 2009 here in SF. There’s food, drinks, an excellent network, plenty of powercords, and a nice room full of geeks to chat with.

    It’s a fun way to dive a bit deeper into making cool data mashups, relationally documenting your brain contents, and getting your questions answered by actually standing in front of Metaweb developers and staring at them until they make go.

    Drop me a note if you are going. :)

    -Erica

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    ]]>     http://librarianavengers.org/2009/06/freebase-hack-day-ii-the-return-of-hack-day/feed/ 2     Choked on his own vomit… http://librarianavengers.org/2008/06/choked-on-his-own-vomit/ http://librarianavengers.org/2008/06/choked-on-his-own-vomit/#comments Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:51:07 +0000 Erica Firment http://librarianavengers.org/?p=475
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    I love Freebase. Here’s a list of people who died via vomit inhalation. Don’t say I never gave you anything.

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    ]]>     http://librarianavengers.org/2008/06/choked-on-his-own-vomit/feed/ 3     Another Data Mob at Freebase – Ethnicity http://librarianavengers.org/2008/05/another-data-mob-at-freebase-ethnicity/ http://librarianavengers.org/2008/05/another-data-mob-at-freebase-ethnicity/#comments Wed, 28 May 2008 00:13:59 +0000 Erica Firment http://librarianavengers.org/?p=473
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    Wanna enrich some data? Got OCD? Tired of trying to get a foot in on popular Wikipedia entries? Try helping out with Freebase.

    It’s a database. Of stuff. Free stuff. You can mush it however you like. You can compare stuff. You can edit it. And this week? This week you can join a few hundred of your fellow data nerds and join a data mob.

    The topic is Ethnicity

    Here’s an update on the current state of the datamob. Go forth librarians! Go forth and link up nodes! For the furture! For the children!

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    ]]>     http://librarianavengers.org/2008/05/another-data-mob-at-freebase-ethnicity/feed/ 1     Shh. “The Library” is the subject of the Freebase Data Mob http://librarianavengers.org/2008/04/shh-the-library-is-the-subject-of-the-freebase-data-mob/ http://librarianavengers.org/2008/04/shh-the-library-is-the-subject-of-the-freebase-data-mob/#comments Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:18:52 +0000 Erica Firment http://librarianavengers.org/?p=464
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    I’m a librarian by ethnicity, if not profession these days, and there’s nothing I like better than free information. Free as in beer and free as in speech. Which is why I like Freebase.

    Freebase is a free database. Of data. On everything.

    Everything in Freebase is publicly available, including the relationships between topics. The information is culled from a variety of open sources, and includes things like, say US zip codes and Walmart Store locations.  Every week their community manager (who happens to be my flatmate and a fellow Victorian Housekeeping Aficionado) picks a topic for a “data mob”, and the community adds information to Freebase on that topic.

    This week it’s libraries. So, Librarian Avengers, I encourage you to go in and add stuff. I suspect you know a bit on the subject.

    Who knows? Maybe one of you will make a video showing the correlation between library locations and Something Really Good…

    *Edit* You gotta have an account first. Just so you know.

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