[Data-modeling] Food (was Re: Sex)

[Jonathan W. Lowe]

On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 15:35 -0400, Kirrily Robert wrote:
> I've now created a personal domain for food, as mentioned in my earlier post about my sex domain.  See http://www.freebase.com/view/user/skud/food 
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> Once again, it's a collection of "buckets" with very few properties, though there are a few around the "Dish" type.  These are all additional to those types already in the common "Food" domain at http://www.freebase.com/view/food and would be added into that domain if promoted.
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> There's a lot of complexity that could go into this (especially if you start getting into recipes, quantities, nutritional information, and so on) but for now I'd really just like to be able to type things.  Did you know how many topics there are in Freebase like "trifle" and "General Tso's chicken" that are completely typeless?  Criminal!
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> Comments welcome.  

Thinking ahead, Freebase might be a good fit for applications involving
a food's country-of-origin labeling (COOL).  In the UK, many foods are
required to note on their packaging where they were grown.  I'm
interested in this from a location angle, and imagine being able to map
the transportation paths of all the ingredients making up a complex food
(or any consumable...a computer, a car, etc.).  Knowing that a food had
to be transported a long way often discourages us from buying it when
browsing the selection at the grocery store.  Although there's very
little internal incentive for food packagers (or parts manufacturers) to
track that sort of lineage, maybe the same consumer pressure that
created COOL in the UK will expand to other countries and/or products in
future.

> I'm going to try and get "Sex" and my "Food" types both promoted soon.
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> K.
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