[Data-modeling] Announcement of upcoming schema changes

[Faye Li]

Am I right to assume then that the uk_politician type may very soon be 
deprecated and removed as well?

-- Faye

Jeff Prucher wrote:
> Unless there is serious objection, we will be making the following changes
> to existing types next week. Please let us know if you have any objections
> to or questions about these changes.  The specific changes, and rationale
> for them, are provided below. We hope to keep such changes to a minimum, but
> as we have moved through alpha, a variety of issues with some schemas have
> been discovered, and we are hoping to resolve as many of them as possible
> before we reach beta.  All such changes will be announced on these lists,
> and we will take any concerns or objections from the community into
> consideration before making them.
>
> 1) Government domain
>
> The type "US Political Office Held" (/government/us_political_office_held)
> will be deleted. Current instances will be migrated to "Government office
> held" (/government/government_position_held).
>
> The following types have been deprecated and will be removed (spellings of
> key names are 'sic'):
>
>     * /government/us_cogressional_commitee_session
>     * /government/us_legistlative_session
>     * /government/us_congress_commitee_assignment
>     * /government/committee_role 
>
> This is part of an ongoing process to make the types in the government
> domain work for all government types, rather than requiring distinct types
> for every country (which is how they were originally set up). These changes
> are the result of the process announced here in October. There may be one or
> two additional sets of changes required before the process is complete.
>
>
> 2) Theater domain
>
> The following types have been deprecated and will be removed:
>
>     * /theater/theater_award
>     * /theater/theater_award_honor
>     * /theater/theater_award_winner
>     * /theater/theater_award_nomination
>     * /theater/theater_award_nominee 
>
> The following properties have been deprecated and will be removed:
>
>     * /theater/theater_production/awards_won
>     * /theater/theater_production/award_nominations
>     * /theater/play/awards_won
>     * /theater/play/award_nominations 
>
> These types and properties are being deleted because they have been
> superseded by the types in the "award" domain. There is currently no data in
> these types, so we expect that this will have a minimal impact.
>
> Jeff Prucher, on behalf of the Data Architecture team 
> Metaweb, Inc.
>
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