[Data-modeling] A proposal for consumer products

[Mohammad Al-Ubaydli]

Sorry if I am ignorant on this but would "Brand" be better than
"manufacturer"? I am guessing you already went through this with your
business guys and was just hoping to learn why the still expect
manufacturer.
mohammad

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 8:42 PM, evening0star <evening0star at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Kirrily Robert
>> Freebase Community Director
>> kirrily at metaweb.com
>> http://freebase.com/
>>
>>
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