[Data-modeling] Cross referencing data within CVTs?

[Ed Laurent]

Thanks Jeff!

Just a heads up that new schema are not showing in the freebase search on
the schema page. There was a delay for awhile that seemed to be fixed but
now it's back.

-Ed


On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Jeff Prucher <jeff at metaweb.com> wrote:

>  If I understand what you're asking, you should be able to accomplish this
> with a CVT that connects the three types.  So rather than having two
> properties ("taxa" and "location") on the souce type, you would just have
> one ("priorities" or something) that goes to the CVT. The CVT would have
> properties for "taxa" and "location", and when you viewed the "taxa" type,
> the "location" and "source" properties would display.
>
> Jeff
>
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> *From:* data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com [mailto:
> data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com] *On Behalf Of *Ed Laurent
> *Sent:* Friday, December 12, 2008 3:20 PM
> *To:* Freebase data modeling mailing list
> *Subject:* [Data-modeling] Cross referencing data within CVTs?
>
> I'm interested in cross referencing data within CVTs. Is this possible,
> pehaps through the use of delegated properties? For example, I want to
> create a list of taxa that are designated as priorities within locations as
> specified in a written work (i.e., "priority taxa"&"priority location" as a
> property of "priority source") and cross reference it with lists on the taxa
> and location types (i.e., "priority taxa"&"priority source" as a property of
> "priority location", and "priority location"&"priority source" as a property
> of "priority taxa") so that all three lists are populated when any one of
> them is filled in. I can't figure out how to do this. Is it possible?
>
> -Ed
>
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