[Data-modeling] Delegated disambiguation properties to import data

[Ed Laurent]

Ok. Dates do import. It was the CVT that was causing my problem. However,
URI's do not import. That would be a bug, right?

How could I go about importing a list of magazine issues, with dates, and
links to pdfs? This seems like it should be simple task but I can't figure
out a way to do it because of the CVT and URI issues. For example, I want to
import this list:

Bird Calls: March 1998, Mar 1998,
http://www.abcbirds.org/newsandreports/birdcalls_pdf/bc98mar.pdf
Bird Calls: Aug 1998, Aug 1998,
http://www.abcbirds.org/newsandreports/birdcalls_pdf/bc98aug.pdf
Bird Calls: Nov 1998, Nov 1998,
http://www.abcbirds.org/newsandreports/birdcalls_pdf/bc98nov.pdf

Is this something that I must request of a programmer/Metaweb to import (I
have enough where I don't want to enter them by hand) or is there a way to
model a schema to do it?

-Ed


On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Jeff Prucher <jeff at metaweb.com> wrote:

>  Periodical Publication Date is not a literal, but a CVT.  And there is no
> way to delegate the properties of the expected type of a delegated
> property.  You should be able to delegate actual literals, though -- if you
> can't, it's a bug.
>
> 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:* Tuesday, December 16, 2008 12:34 PM
> *To:* Freebase data modeling mailing list
> *Subject:* [Data-modeling] Delegated disambiguation properties to import
> data
>
> I would like to use the import tool to import selected Magazine issue
> properties (I'm a modeler but not a programmer). I was going to do this by
> creating a new schema, include the Magazine issue type, use disambiguation
> for the delegated properties I want to import, import a table I formatted in
> Excel, and then delete the import schema. However, it does not seem possible
> to delegate literal properties (e.g., date for Periodical Publication Date).
> Is this true, and if so, is there a work-around?
>
> -Ed
>
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