[Data-modeling] Award Winning Work - split Media and Products?

[Jeff Prucher]

I think adding additional fields to the award honor CVT will only further
confuse things. Renaming the fields is a possibility, if that  would help,
but I think the essential division of award into person (or group of people)
and thing is sufficient. Any splitting beyond that is going to be arbitrary
to some extent: If we agree that there should be a division between
"creative work" and "consumer product", we are explicitly excluding any
other types of things that can be awarded, or forcing people to make
arbitrary choices -- is a building a "creative work"?  What about a TV
commercial? Or a magazine?  These can be argued, certainly, but my point is
that there are a lot of things that don't fit neatly into one of those two
buckets, but which all fit into the current schema.

Jeff

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> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 6:43 PM
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> Subject: [Data-modeling] Award Winning Work - split Media and 
> Products?
> 
> Am I the only one who thinks using the same type for award 
> winning books/films as well as cars/consumer products seems 
> odd?  I realize the description says it is for both but in 
> practice, until recently, it has been been applied primarily 
> to books, films and other creative media.  I'm seeing a lot 
> of automobiles showing up leading me to think a separate type 
> might be better for award winning products.  Any thoughts?
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