Freebase updated the data dumps monthly. The main data source is Wikipedia, with many other data sources that update their content frequently.
Without releasing the tools and without a community who adds/fixes the data, it will be a lot less useful/useless. It's like reading a years old printed lexicon.
There is a lot evidence that the up-coming event will be a big loss - do a web search. A lot of software has been written and a lot of effort at e.g. http://schema.org has been made, all based on Freebase ontology with links to Freebase website. Freebase is basically the machine readable form of Wikipedia plus a lot of other data sources.
It's basically like closing down Wikipedia. And then a data dump of Wikipedia of March 2015 will be useless in 2020!
Do Facebook, Microsoft, Nuance, IBM, WolframResearch all have already an in-house Freebase clone. Or how do they update their databases in near future - the data used for Siri, Cortana, Siri, Watson, WolframAlpha. If not, would one of these companies be so kind and boot-strap/support an open Freebase rescue project?
Without releasing the tools and without a community who adds/fixes the data, it will be a lot less useful/useless. It's like reading a years old printed lexicon.
There is a lot evidence that the up-coming event will be a big loss - do a web search. A lot of software has been written and a lot of effort at e.g. http://schema.org has been made, all based on Freebase ontology with links to Freebase website. Freebase is basically the machine readable form of Wikipedia plus a lot of other data sources.
It's basically like closing down Wikipedia. And then a data dump of Wikipedia of March 2015 will be useless in 2020!
Do Facebook, Microsoft, Nuance, IBM, WolframResearch all have already an in-house Freebase clone. Or how do they update their databases in near future - the data used for Siri, Cortana, Siri, Watson, WolframAlpha. If not, would one of these companies be so kind and boot-strap/support an open Freebase rescue project?