Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Metaweb's Freebase Now 60% Larger Than English Wikipedia - ReadWriteWeb

Read the full post for some interesting Freebase details and mashups

Wikipedia is an incredible monument to human creativity and collaboration, but as one era of innovation passes into another - semantic web advocates want to augment the huge human input into the web with machine learning. The semantically enriched common database Freebase announced today that it will soon reach the milestone of 4 million topics added to its collection. That's 60% more than English Wikipedia's 2,445,041 articles and almost half the size of Wikipedia's full 10 million articles in 250 different languages.

What is Freebase? It's a database of information that's organized by people and machines and is particularly well suited for machine reading. You're not a machine - so why should you care? Read on.

Metaweb's Freebase Now 60% Larger Than English Wikipedia - ReadWriteWeb

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