[Data-modeling] Proposed changes to the /organization/organization type

Bryan Cheung bryan.cheung at metaweb.com
Wed Mar 5 19:36:57 UTC 2008


A couple of changes have been proposed for the /organization/ 
organization type:

1. A user has requested that we add time span as a disambiguated  
property on organization member.

http://www.freebase.com/view/discuss/organization/organization_member#%2Fguid%2F9202a8c04000641f8000000006fe1430

I think it's a good idea to know when people were members of an  
organization; however, the relationship between an organization member  
and an organization is a simple one, and we would have to insert a CVT  
to represent the timespan-member relationship.

2. One of the designers of the organization type originally created  
the property key_people, and later decided this was a bad idea and hid  
the property.  This property has been hidden for quite some time, but  
there still exists some data that should be migrated.

The existing data should be migrated to /business/employer/employee  
(employer is an included type) and the hidden property should be  
deleted.

Does anyone disagree with this changes?  Are the applications being  
developed that will break due to these changes?

Thanks,
Bryan



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