[Data-modeling] Date/Time type requires a specific year when all Iwant is to capture a yearly calendar event

[Gordon Mackenzie]

Yes, Day of Year will work for me at the present, and I made the  
changes to the meteor shower schema. I also took Jeff and Ed's  
suggestion for a CVT which I created in my private domain called "Time  
Interval (Day of Year)" (or should it be 'Dates of year' ? 'Days of  
Year'?)

http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/schema/astronomy/meteor_shower


~ Gordon

<<< gordon at metaweb.com >>>



On Jan 14, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Ed Laurent wrote:

> I created a CVT (similar to what Jeff describes) for summarizing  
> sampling campaigns that can start, stop, and pick up again over  
> multiple years. It's still in development but here it is: http://www.freebase.com/view/schema/user/spatialed/litcentral/sampling_campaign
> Here is an example of how its being used: http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000006ac8f37
> Meteor showers and sampling campaigns are but two topics that could  
> use an "intermittent occurrence" type, so a generic form could be  
> useful.
>
> -Ed
>
> On Jan 14, 2008 1:04 PM, Jeff Prucher < jeff at metaweb.com> wrote:
> If I understand you correctly, you want to have properties that will  
> accept
> values like "June 17". If that's what you want, you can use the type
> /time/day_of_year. As far as a range goes, you can either create a  
> new CVT,
> or just have two properties: "earliest date of shower" and "latest  
> date of
> shower" or some such.
>
> Jeff
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com
> > [mailto:data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of
> > Gordon Mackenzie
> > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 5:16 PM
> > To: Freebase data modeling mailing list
> > Subject: [Data-modeling] Date/Time type requires a specific
> > year when all Iwant is to capture a yearly calendar event
> >
> > For Meteor Showers, there is a range of dates the shower
> > occurs within and a peak date when the Zenithal Hourly Rate
> > (the maximal number of meteors observed within an hour when
> > observational conditions are
> > optimal) is at its highest.
> >
> > I could simply make the new properties, and give them the Text type.
> > That seems a shame for I think it would be more useful to
> > have a calendar year date-range type (either one that
> > includes the option to just enter the hour/month/date with
> > the ability to add a second set of values to form the range
> > or two separate types, one for specific calendar date and one
> > for range of calendar dates).
> >
> > I've been informed this is a variant of an anniversary issue.
> > Where it is not a simple task to get a MQL query result of
> > say of that of an anniversary like all the people sharing a
> > birthday in a instantly useable form.
> >
> > ~ Gordon
> >
> > <<< gordon at metaweb.com >>>
> >
> >
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