[Data-modeling] software -- single vs multiple values

Ed Laurent spatial.db at gmail.com
Tue Jun 17 19:50:12 UTC 2008


+1

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Kirrily Robert <kirrily at metaweb.com> wrote:

> Agreed.  Wonder if that's worth suggesting as a tweak to the schema
> editor -- that choosing "date/time" would auto-check the singular
> checkbox, making you explicitly uncheck it if that's not what you
> wanted.
>
> K.
>
> On Jun 17, 2008, at 12:45 PM, John Giannandrea wrote:
>
> >
> > I think all properties that have an ECT datetime should be singular
> > unless explicitly desired otherwise.
> > The reason is that unique things are easier to sort on.    sort:first-
> > released
> > -jg
> >
> > On Jun 17, 2008, at 11:50 AM, Kirrily Robert wrote:
> >
> >> Just editing the topic for "Mozilla Firefox" and noticed that the
> >> following properties of the "Software" type permit multiples but
> >> probably shouldn't:
> >>
> >> * first released
> >> * latest release
> >> * latest release date
> >>
> >> Any thoughts on making these singular?
> >>
> >> K.
> >>
> >> --
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> >>
> >>
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