Nick,

Ah! I understand you view now. I was thinking more on the platform that
could anyone deploy their our metadata service (open source) and have a
client application that can be customized by the user and select which
metadata server to contact. The metadata server that will be contacted by
the client app might have or not the information but will have the logical
means to forward the request to the top level metadata server configured on 
that metadata server (hence ala DNS behaviour).

This could enable anyone to have their own metadata server
configured/customized the way they want and the system can be as wide and
open as the internet instead of relaying on a single
system/implementation/point of failure.

Probably for only one app like the mobile location wikipedia using
freebase.com might be enough.

Regards,

-Urivan Flores-Saaib

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On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:09:19 +0100 "Nick Johnson" wrote:

On 7/3/07, Urivan Saaib <saaib@ciberlinux.net> wrote:
> I noticed the freebase.com website requires invitation, do you have access
> to it? Also, the license of the service is free for non-commercial only, do
> you have any considerations in this topic? How will this affect the
> adoption of new developments?

I have an invite. When it goes beta, accounts won't be required for
read-only access, and when it goes release, accounts will be free for
the taking. My undestanding RE: use is that all the content is
Creative Commons licensed, so it shouldn't be an issue.

> Also, custom metadata repositories and replication (commercial services) do
> not seem feasible with freebase.com.

What do you mean? I was thinking of this as a sort of mobile,
location-based wikipedia.

-Nick Johnson

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