[Data-modeling] Modeling nutritional information

[Bryan Cheung]

The property /business/consumer_product/gtin is available on www now (http://www.freebase.com/type/schema/business/consumer_product 
).

Bryan

On Aug 29, 2008, at 5:30 AM, Mohammad Al-Ubaydli wrote:

> Works great - please push it to www. Thank you!
> mohammad
>
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Bryan Cheung <bryan.cheung at metaweb.com 
> > wrote:
> I've added the property /business/consumer_product/gtin to  
> sandbox .  Play around with it and if all looks good, I'll promote  
> it to www.
>
> Bryan
>
> On Aug 25, 2008, at 5:06 PM, Jeff Prucher wrote:
>
>> I just checked the fridge, and as far as nutritional information  
>> goes, both food and drink use grams (at least in the US).
>>
>> Looking at the types again, I think your two types could be  
>> collapsed into a single "Food product" (or whatever) type. It would  
>> have the properties for nutritional information, RDA (if you use  
>> it), serving size, etc. It would have "consumer product" as an  
>> included type, and get the GTIN from there.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>> From: data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com [mailto:data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com 
>> ] On Behalf Of Mohammad Al-Ubaydli
>> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 2:46 PM
>> To: Freebase data modeling mailing list
>> Subject: Re: [Data-modeling] Modeling nutritional information
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Jeff Prucher <jeff at metaweb.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>> >       3) The name of the "retail data" type should probably
>> > be something that more clearly describes the topics that will
>> > use that type -- something like "Food product" or "Packaged
>> > food" or something like that.
>> >
>> >
>> > Agreed. But also, would that include drinks like milk, or
>> > should a different type be created?
>>
>> I would include drinks and eats in the same type for this, since
>> nutritionally, it doesn't matter whether it's liquid or solid. So  
>> maybe
>> "food" will be misleading for some people. It could be simply "Food  
>> or Drink
>> Product" or the like (and doesn't that phrase make it sound tasty?)
>>
>> Sorry, what I meant to say was, does drink have different  
>> properties (e.g. a volume rather than a mass) that require a  
>> different data model? If not, then I much prefer your suggestion of  
>> just "food" rather than the less than appetizing "food or drink  
>> product" :-)
>>
>> The USDA has a lovely, copyright-free database with quantitative  
>> information
>> about packaged food, which measures an insane amount of nutrients.  
>> You can
>> search the data here: http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/  
>> and
>> download it here: http://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm? 
>> docid=8964
>>
>> Fabulous, I would like to upload this. I can take care of renaming  
>> and rearranging the column headings to match the ones I currently  
>> have in Freebase, but do I need someone from the Metaweb team to do  
>> the uploading for me?
>>
>> mohammad
>>
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