[Data-modeling] Religion domain: churches => places of worship

[Tom Morris]

People can have multiple current jobs, so that the fact that they've
got a new job doesn't necessarily imply the end of a previous job.

If someone calls it their "former job" on 13 Nov 2007, it's safe to
fill in an end date of "before 13 Nov 2007" (if the date syntax were
to allow it), but arbitrarily asserting end dates for things without
evidence is dangerous.  If you've got evidence, it should point to at
least a bound for the end of the range.  It should then be possible to
find all jobs which were current as of any particular date, including
today.

Tom

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Mike Shwe <mike.shwe at metaweb.com> wrote:
>
> I'm curious as to how far we'll want to go with this idiom.
>
> For example, with /people/person/employment_history, it's often the case
> that you know a person's current place of employment and previous places of
> employment, but you don't know the end date of their
> /business/employment_tenure. So, we end up with a lot of
> /business/employment_tenure CVTs with an open end date, although we know
> that they no longer work at those jobs.
>
> We could similarly add a current employment property to /people/person, as
> well as make appropriate adjustments to the reciprocating relationship from
> /business/employer/employees
>
> The same issue applies to the /business/board_membership CVT.
>
> --mike
>
>
>
> On 6/23/08 1:17 PM, "Robert Cook" <robert at metaweb.com> wrote:
>
>> +1
>>
>> I think that this will be a very common idiom -- put the "current"
>> value(s) in the property that people would most expect to find the
>> data, and create a parallel "historical" data in property with CVT.
>>
>> R
>> On Jun 23, 2008, at 12:58 PM, Jeff Prucher wrote:
>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com
>>>> [mailto:data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of
>>>> Kirrily Robert
>>>> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 12:47 PM
>>>> To: Freebase data modeling mailing list
>>>> Subject: Re: [Data-modeling] Religion domain: churches =>
>>>> places of worship
>>>>
>>>> OK, how does this look?
>>>>
>>>> http://www.freebase.com/view/en/westminster_abbey (scroll down to
>>>> Religion)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Kirrily Robert
>>>> Freebase Community Director
>>>> kirrily at metaweb.com
>>>> http://freebase.com/
>>>>
>>>>
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