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The hours of a public school day are generally about two hours shorter than the average workday, not accounting for commuting time. There is still a need for before and/or after school care for several years after after the child enrolls in school.

I live in one of those cities that regularly makes the best places to live lists. I’m not able to get a spot in a before or after school program for my children, regardless of price. The one child center that serves the school has already filled their slots for the fall.

Seems like this well educated, high income market is still organized around one parent not working full time or a grandparent living nearby.

In a similar vein, I would suggest preparing by exercising. Being a parent of young kids is more physical than you think, or at least I thought. Carrying them while carrying other things, carrying gear, lots of bending, general physical awkwardness, etc.

Freebase doesn't have an ontology in the Semantic Web sense. It's always been a specialized tool with non standard protocols like MQL. Schema.org is somewhat related but not tied whatsoever to Freebase.

Wikidata is fully editable and has an ecosystem for updating data so concerns about stale data aren't valid. Since Wikipedia will be pulling from it (is already in some cases) you could argue that their will be more sunlight on the data.

There's been a lot of code written against Freebase APIs (me included) but it isn't sad it's going away. It's the risk you take when relying on 3rd party services. I think your confusing short term developer convenience with a real loss of open data.

Is there evidence that the migration to Wikidata is half-hearted? This was just announced in December.

Not sure this is evidence of a "sad demise". Wikidata is non-commercial project managed by a foundation. Freebase/Metaweb was always a commercial project. Seems like this is a move towards openness if anything.

Full Freebase data dumps have long been available.

https://developers.google.com/freebase/data

It's nice to see that Google is adding features to Scholar. There's concern in the library community that it will go away since its not a revenue producing service.

Incidentally, Microsoft Academic Search is pretty impressive so far. They've added many features. They also have an API that is pretty easy to use, which Scholar doesn't.

http://academic.research.microsoft.com/