[Data-modeling] Announcement of upcoming schema changes

[Jeff Prucher]

Yes -- there are several existing country-specific types that will be
deleted at a later date because we have to make sure that the data is
migrated to the correct types.  We'll send out another email before we do
this, of course.

Jeff 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com 
> [mailto:data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of Faye Li
> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 2:01 PM
> To: Freebase data modeling mailing list
> Subject: Re: [Data-modeling] Announcement of upcoming schema changes
> 
> 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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