[Data-modeling] Modeling nutritional information

[Mohammad Al-Ubaydli]

Hi all,
I am starting a model of nutritional information on food labels and can tell
that I am doing it wrong even after reading the documentation... Could
someone help me with this model?

http://www.freebase.com/view/user/idiopathic/nutritional_information

What I want is for someone to easily type in the barcode of a food item and
get back the full nutritional information. So I made two types, one called
"Retail data", and the other "Nutritients". The "Nutrients" type includes
the "Retail data" one.

However, when I try to add a record, it insists on a name. I tried this one:

http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000008ffa1d8?domain=%2Fuser%2Fidiopathic%2Fnutritional_information

Apart from telling you all what I had for lunch today, this does not seem to
me like a sustainable naming strategy. The primary key of each entry should
be its barcode, not the compound name of the product and retailer.

What am I doing wrong, and how should I fix it? (If anyone would like to
help me fix this, I would be delighted to invite you to administer the
domain with me of course.)

Many thanks for any help, and my apologies in advance for being such a
newbie.
mohammad

Dr. Mohammad Al-Ubaydli
e me at mo.md
w www.mo.md
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