Comments on: working with the bioguide ID for congressperson in Freebase http://blog.dataunbound.com/2009/03/08/working-with-the-bioguide-id-for-congressperson-in-freebase/ Helping organizations access and share data effectively. Special focus on web APIs for data integration. Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:35:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: tfmorris.blogspot.com/ http://blog.dataunbound.com/2009/03/08/working-with-the-bioguide-id-for-congressperson-in-freebase/comment-page-1/#comment-77 tfmorris.blogspot.com/ Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:28:28 +0000 http://blog.dataunbound.com/?p=408#comment-77 Looks like the trackback I sent never got posted. Raymond already knows this, but for anyone else following along at home, I posted some tips on how to create a Freebase enumerated id/property in this <a href="http://tfmorris.blogspot.com/2009/03/freebase-open-government-and.html" rel="nofollow">blog post</a>. Since that time I've resolved most of the 12,000+ identifiers to their Freebase topics and added them to Freebase <a href="http://uspolitician.freebase.com/view/base/uspolitician/views/u_s_congressperson" rel="nofollow">here</a>. You can now access <a href="http://www.freebase.com/view/base/uspolitician/thomas_id/S001181" rel="nofollow">Jeanne Shaheen at Freebase via ID</a>. Because the enumerated property has a URL template associated with it, you can click through to her Congressional Biography in the Web Links section of the page. This parallels what Metaweb did for the NY Times and <a href="http://shawn.simister.ca/" rel="nofollow">Shawn Simister</a> for the <a href="http://www.freebase.com/type/schema/user/narphorium/people/nndb_person" rel="nofollow">NNDB schema</a> (Notable Names database), so you can click through to any of these sites. The URLs are all generated automatically by filling in a template with an enumerated ID. Looks like the trackback I sent never got posted. Raymond already knows this, but for anyone else following along at home, I posted some tips on how to create a Freebase enumerated id/property in this blog post.

Since that time I've resolved most of the 12,000+ identifiers to their Freebase topics and added them to Freebase here. You can now access Jeanne Shaheen at Freebase via ID.

Because the enumerated property has a URL template associated with it, you can click through to her Congressional Biography in the Web Links section of the page. This parallels what Metaweb did for the NY Times and Shawn Simister for the NNDB schema (Notable Names database), so you can click through to any of these sites. The URLs are all generated automatically by filling in a template with an enumerated ID.

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