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

[Faye Li]

+1 except that the word "type" has a special meaning in Freebase; so I'd 
consider something like "Business Location Category", especially if 
that's going to made a new type.

-- Faye


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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