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

[Robert Cook]

+1 -- and maybe coming up with better property names will help the  
current confusion.

On Dec 22, 2008, at 11:17 AM, "Jeff Prucher" <jeff at metaweb.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of Jon Reitsma
>> 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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