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Hi all,
I am the webmaster of Skimap.org and I just discovered this website - looks amazing! We would like to merge in our database of 2200 ski areas from around the world (many with statistics and logo's) to your database and then leverage the API. How can we do this automatically without creating duplicating ski areas?
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hi wbski,
Probably the easiest way to load your dataset is to provide us with the data and we can load it internally. Alternatively, you can use our (still experimental) reconciliation service and reconcile externally. In any case, I've created OD-192 as a tracking issue.
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Great to see you on this base. I've been a fan of skimap.org for years. Let me know if you have any feedback regarding the data model. There are a couple of things I'm not sure are modelled in the best way, especially lift histories.
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Thanks for the speedy response! Your website seems very robust - but the data seems very incomplete coming from wikipedia. I can also provide a DB of about 1000 ski runs in British Columbia from Skiingbc.info (mind you this is about 1.5 years out of date). I am very busy but I will contact you guys in a few weeks with the database. Thanks!
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The ski data is very incomplete! I have entered most of it by hand (and generally only about resorts I frequent.) There is some useful information in the {{Infobox ski area}} Wikipedia templates, if someone at Metaweb wants to add it to the template mapper. Although, I don't know how consistent the formatting is.
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Okay, makes sense. A couple questions about API integrations: first of all, is there any sort of guarantee about uptime? Next, how can we assure that when our website is connected to the API, it won't be spammed by someone adding junk to the Ski Areas base on Freebase? This doesn't seem to be much of an issue right now, but once freebase is more popular, it could be. Can we allow our users to seamlessly (through our interface) add data to freebase?
I imagine once these bases are more complete, it would be amazing to have a Wolfram Alpha integration! I have noticed wolfram is lacking a lot of information and this site could definitely fill many gaps in wolfram.
This website seems like it will be a massive success once more people know about it (the next Wikipedia?), especially with Web 3.0 well on the way. You guys are making an awesome service!
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What format do you want the data in? Ideally, I can provide it in JSON, but I could also provide it in mysql, however, that would be a little more difficult as there are so many id's in each ski area entry.
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I am building a new website for skimap.org at the moment and would like to integrate with the freebase API. However, I will need to get the data on freebase asap for this to happen. Thanks!
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wbski, have you seen the help article on contributing large datasets?
You can also upload yourself if you wish. If it is a large dataset, the way to go is to create your own MQL write command. You can use the query editor or the API to do this.
I don't know about guarantees of uptime as such, but considering freebase's business model also relies on freebase.com's uptime.......
As with any user contributable website there's always the possibility of spam and malicious activity, but there's a growing number of freebase tools to help keep us on top of that - and as every edit can be reached through the api it is relatively simple to create your own custom tools.
It is possible to get user contribution's into freebase through your own website - the API is the way to go there. There are some programming libraries already available.
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