Freebase -- Open Shared Database of The World's Knowledge


	Freebase -- Open Shared Database of The World's Knowledge

rj3sp

5-29-2008 4:14 PM

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Freebase, a product of semantic web company Metaweb, is an open database of information. Unlike Wikipedia, which is a free form database, Freebase is structured, with concepts and relationships interlinked into a giant network.

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