[Data-modeling] Organization v. Company

[Jeff Fry]

Thanks, I'll go ahead and migrate the values from Company > 
Organization, and then detype it as a Company.
Jeff F

Jeff Prucher wrote:
> Property delegation won't help you here, since all it would do is co-type
> organizations as companies (or vice versa) when those properties are filled
> out.  I'd say that the AST is an organization, but not a company.  There's
> an open task to create a schema for non-profit organizations that I'm
> currently working on, which might resolve this. 
>
> Jeff P
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com 
>> [mailto:data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Fry
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 11:41 PM
>> To: data-modeling at freebase.com
>> Subject: [Data-modeling] Organization v. Company
>>
>>
>> I was just looking at 
>> http://www.freebase.com/view/en/association_for_software_testi
>> ng which I typed some time back as an Organization and a 
>> Company. I see now that the Company and Organization each 
>> list one board member...but not the same one. I can just 
>> delete the board member from Organization and add it to 
>> Company, or vice versa, but I'm wondering if this (and many 
>> other properties of Organization) should be delegated to Company? 
>>
>> Another option would be to say something should be listed as 
>> a Company or an Organization, but not both. The only problem 
>> I'd have with that is that Company includes Legal Structure, 
>> and Organization includes Number of Members...and I'd like to 
>> be able to track both. 
>>
>> Where are we at with this model? Is there an established 
>> right way for me to do this? Now that property delegation is 
>> getting easier, should one of these types get properties 
>> delegated from the other? 
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jeff
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