I finally received my Freebase invite over the weekend. After viewing the initial tutorial video to get my bearings, I’m ready to jump into this communal database project as a fall side project. Freebase (as in “Free + Database”) follows the basic wiki model of a communal editorial staff of writers feeding the site. Unlike a wiki, though, the content being captured is encapsulated in a formed database with an API intended to reuse this data in many ways.