[Data-modeling] Prisons

[Brendan Neutra]

I'd guess that most prisons are multi-building complexes.  If you really want to include that dimension of this data, you'd be safer including /architecture/building_complex which, in turn, specifies the list of buildings that make up the complex.

brendan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Prucher" <jeff at metaweb.com>
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Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 2:44:19 PM (GMT-0800) America/Los_Angeles
Subject: Re: [Data-modeling] Prisons

I like this idea.

I'm not sure about adding "structure" as an included type -- a lot of
prisons are multi-building compounds.

It would be useful to be able to locate prisons geographically -- should
there be an address property, or would simply including "Location" take care
of that for us?

I wonder if "managed by" needs a CVT with dates -- the Hanoi Hilton, for
example, was under French administration before it became a Vietnamese POW
camp.  (Actually, that raises a question about the prison type property as
well -- does this need to be date-mediated as well?)

I also wonder if "managed by" should link to a new type (Prison Management
Organization or some such). This is partly because I imagine that it's
possible that some prisons might not be managed by government agencies, and
also because it would be nice to have a reverse property of "Prisons
managed", which wouldn't make sense to include on the general "Government
agency" type.

Jeff P

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of Bryan Cheung
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 11:00 AM
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> Subject: [Data-modeling] Prisons
> 
> /user/arielb has taken a stab at modeling prisons, and he's 
> looking for some peer review:
> 
> http://www.freebase.com/view/user/arielb/prison
> 
> I'll get the ball started.  We could probably have location 
> (maybe structure also?) as an included type for prisons.  
> There may be some overlap with skud's legal domain also 
> (http://www.freebase.com/view/user/skud/legal
> )
> 
> Comments are welcome!
> 
> Bryan
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