[Data-modeling] A proposal for consumer products

[evening0star]

This would be great!!

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Kirrily Robert <kirrily at metaweb.com> wrote:

> Just talked to Jeff about this and wanted to run it past you all.
> I'll also crosspost to the Business domain.
>
> Currently we have no link between "iPhone" and "Apple" in our schema.
> That is, the consumer product type has no property for the company
> that makes that product.  The problem is that if you talk about
> "Product manufacturer" you get all caught up in the fact that
> actually, some factory in China manufactures/assembles the iPhone.
> But I talked to some of our business guys and asked them, and they
> said that the term manufacturer, though imprecise, is the right term
> to use.  And we couldn't come up with anythign better.
>
> So here's what I propose:
>
> 1) A type, "Product manufacturer".  The description for that type
> should explain that it applies to the company ultimately responsible
> for producing the product, and isn't intended to capture the actual
> physical manufacturing of the product eg. by subcontracted factories.
>
> 2) On the type "Consumer product", a property called "Produced by"
> which expects "Product manufacturer".  Calling it "produced by" will
> discourage people who are looking at the iPhone page from putting in
> the name of the Chinese factory.
>
> 3) Additionally, a type called "Product line" which has the properties
> "Parent product line" and "Includes sub-lines" (i.e. a phylogeny
> pattern) as well as "Products in this line" which expects "Consumer
> product".
>
> 4) On "Consumer product", a reverse property called "Part of product
> line"
>
> It's not perfect but it seems good enough for now, and better than
> nothing.  Thoughts?
>
> K.
>
>
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> Kirrily Robert
> Freebase Community Director
> kirrily at metaweb.com
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