[Data-modeling] Modeling nutritional information

[Mohammad Al-Ubaydli]

Dear John,
could you please set this up so I can include in the nutritional information
domain?

Many thanks,
mohammad

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 5:52 AM, John Giannandrea <jg at metaweb.com> wrote:

>
> There is already a nascent type for Consumer product
> http://www.freebase.com/type/schema/business/consumer_product
>
> It would make sense to add  a GTIN number property there and co-type the
> food products.
>
> Ideally the GTIN's should be added as keys, in an enumerated namespace.
>
> In fact someone already suggested exactly this.
>
> http://www.freebase.com/discuss/threads/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000083155d8?domain=/business
>
> If no-one objects I can set this up...
>
> -jg
>
>
> On Aug 24, 2008, at 12:22 PM, Mohammad Al-Ubaydli wrote:
>
> 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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