[Data-modeling] Consumer product type (was Modeling question)

[Robert Cook]

If you gather information on products, people would like to know where  
to purchase it.  These could be added to a more general link type  
(such as the one on /common/topic) but it seemed to have more utility  
as a more specific property.

Even more importantly, this points to how users of freebase could more  
easily make money from their applications.

R

On Jan 30, 2008, at 5:09 PM, Shawn Simister wrote:

> The new type looks good to me but I'm curious what the intended use  
> case for the purchase_links property is?
>
> Shawn
>
> Jeff Prucher wrote:
>>
>> If there are no more comments on this type, I'll promote it to the  
>> business
>> domain at the end of the week.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com
>>> [mailto:data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of
>>> Kavitha Srinivas
>>> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 12:11 PM
>>> To: Freebase data modeling mailing list
>>> Subject: Re: [Data-modeling] Consumer product type (was
>>> Modeling question)
>>>
>>> Yes, then that makes sense.
>>> Kavitha
>>> On Jan 28, 2008, at 1:49 PM, Jeff Prucher wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Yes, that's exactly what we were thinking.
>>>>
>>>> Jeff
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com
>>>>> [mailto:data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of Kavitha
>>>>> Srinivas
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 6:10 PM
>>>>> To: Freebase data modeling mailing list
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Data-modeling] Consumer product type (was Modeling
>>>>> question)
>>>>>
>>>>> This looks great.  Just to clarify your point about not wanting to
>>>>> encode an association with a brand or company type, do you
>>>>>
>>> mean that
>>>
>>>>> there might be a more specific link between a company and
>>>>>
>>> a product,
>>>
>>>>> say Apple Inc. has ComputerModels MacBookPro, but that the
>>>>>
>>> MacBookPro
>>>
>>>>> will be typed additionally as a consumer_product?
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>> Kavitha
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jan 24, 2008, at 4:52 PM, Jeff Prucher wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Following up on a recent discussion on the data-modelling and
>>>>>> developers lists (threads begin here:
>>>>>> http://lists.freebase.com/pipermail/developers/2008-January/
>>>>>> 001156.html
>>>>>> and here:
>>>>>> http://lists.freebase.com/pipermail/data-modeling/2008-January/
>>>>>> 000250.html),
>>>>>> we're proposing a new type to be used for consumer
>>>>>>
>>> products.  This
>>>
>>>>>> type is a fairly simple type, with only three properties,
>>>>>>
>>>>> all of which
>>>>>
>>>>>> expect the type
>>>>>> "webpage": "official website", "external reviews", and "purchase
>>>>>> links". The type would most likely be used as an included type on
>>>>>> types that are designed for more specific products, and
>>>>>>
>>> can be used
>>>
>>>>>> for everything from board games, to computer software, to digital
>>>>>> cameras (and more -- examples in the earlier discussion included
>>>>>> pharmaceuticals, books, and cars).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We decided against trying to encode an association with a brand,
>>>>>> manufacturer, or other company type since the
>>>>>>
>>> relationships between
>>>
>>>>>> products, brands, and companies can vary greatly between
>>>>>>
>>> different
>>>
>>>>>> types of products, and we want to enable communities and interest
>>>>>> groups to maintain a more precise structure.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The type is published in my private domain, with some
>>>>>>
>>>>> examples of how
>>>>>
>>>>>> it might be used:
>>>>>> http://www.freebase.com/view/schema/user/jeff/default_domain/
>>>>>> consumer_produc
>>>>>> t
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Comments welcome.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jeff Prucher
>>>>>> Type Librarian & Ontologist
>>>>>> Metaweb Technologies, Inc.
>>>>>>
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