[Data-modeling] Proposed change to the relationship of retail locations to companies

[Bryan Cheung]

> I like this idea but could you also add a Business Location Type
> property to Business Location so that we can specify whether it is the
> Headquarter, Factory, Retail Location, etc. I can see this being  
> useful
> in the politics domain as well since many politicians have more than  
> one
> office.
Instead of a type enumeration property, how about cotyping the  
business location with, for example, a manufacturing plant type?

On Jun 26, 2008, at 10:57 AM, Shawn Simister wrote:

> I like this idea but could you also add a Business Location Type
> property to Business Location so that we can specify whether it is the
> Headquarter, Factory, Retail Location, etc. I can see this being  
> useful
> in the politics domain as well since many politicians have more than  
> one
> office.
>
> Shawn
>
> Bryan Cheung wrote:
>> A couple of users have spoke up about the difficulty of modeling
>> business locations of a company.
>>
>> Currently, there is no way to model a company's business locations.
>> The closest analogy we have is the method to model businesses that  
>> are
>> retail locations or business chains that have retail locations.
>>
>> The way to model a company that is a retail location is to co-type  
>> the
>> company as a retail location. To model a company that is has multiple
>> locations, the company is instead co-typed as a business chain and
>> then the retail locations are added to the business chain retail
>> locations property. However, this is then asserting that any company
>> with more than 1 location is a business chain, which may not
>> necessarily be true.
>>
>> This model works fine for things like coffee chains (Starbucks), but
>> not so well for local stores that may have more than one location (a
>> doctor with 2 offices).
>>
>> It's been proposed that these schema changes be made:
>>
>> 1. Rename the type retail location to business location (and update
>> the key to reflect this new name)
>> 2. Move the property retail locations off of business chain and put  
>> it
>> on company (and also rename it to business locations)
>> 3. Delete the business chain type.
>>
>> For companies with only one business location, e.g. the local liquor
>> store or flower shop, the topic should be typed as a company and as a
>> buisness location itself.
>>
>> Comments? Objections?
>>
>> Bryan
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