filter Freebase suggest results based on category

jodischneider commented 12 years ago

When choosing Freebase items, I get lots of irrelevant stuff with the same name -- like book editions, books, musical recordings.

Does Freebase suggest allow you to specify the categories you'll accept?

If their API allows, I'd recommend filtering:

Institution fields should allow

College/University
Employer
Organization
Company
Museum (there may be other relevant ones but those are the ones I've encountered)

Topics fields should allow

Programming language
Organizational sector
Literature subject
Project
Topic (there may be other relevant ones but those are the ones I've encountered)

edsu commented 11 years ago

Freebase Suggest does allow you to filter yes. If you can supply a list of Freebase suggest categories I'm willing to try it. Alternatively I could use the existing tags to see what the most popular categories are by now, and constrain to that.

edsu commented 8 years ago

I think this was done a while ago. It will likely need adjustment though when addressing #38

code4lib / shortimer

filter Freebase suggest results based on category #17