[Data-modeling] Fictional Universes on a Friday Afternoon

[Gordon Makenzie]

Purely an aesthetics decision made for most of the types that deal with popular media...For example the Fictional Employment Tenure Filter view:

http://www.freebase.com/view/fictional_universe/fictional_employment_tenure

With disambiguation (for the last two names in the displayed instances on this page) the title of each topic displays:

Character Name   •   Employer   •   Job Title

Hiro Protagonist   •   La cosa nostra pizza   •   Pizza delivery

Tres nifty.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Micah Saul" <micah at metaweb.com>
To: "Freebase data modeling mailing list" <data-modeling at freebase.com>
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 6:18:49 PM (GMT-0800) America/Los_Angeles
Subject: Re: [Data-modeling] Fictional Universes on a Friday Afternoon

In terms of the Creator: I think it's definitely a worthwhile property  
to have. Allows you to create the query: "What fictional universes as  
Joss Whedon created" which I can definitely see merit in.

As far as setting it as a disambiguator... what would it be  
disambiguating? I mean, is there another Buffyverse? Or a different  
Star Trek universe? Is there a case where two fictional universes have  
the same name and would need that level of disambiguation?

micah

On Mar 14, 2008, at 6:10 PM, Gordon Mackenzie wrote:

> I was wondering if there is any value to adding the Creator as a
> property and have it disambiguate so as to appear with the title of
> the Fictional Universe on the filter view:
>
> http://www.freebase.com/view/fictional_universe/fictional_universe
>
> So on the filter view page it would present itself as:
>
> Buffyverse - Joss Whedon
>
> What to do for something that has multiple creators such as the
> whoniverse?
>
> Whoniverse - BBC?
>
> ===
>
> I am also thinking of creating a clone/cloned/cloner type (just
> watched the not so great Star Trek Nemesis, which has a cloned
> character, Shinzon...I added that Shinzon as a character is based upon
> Jean-Luc Picard but it seems inaccurate to also list Shinzon as the
> child of Picard.
>
> In science fiction entertainment many clones abound these days...I
> think we need that data relationship within Freebase ;)
>
> So I guess the cleanest way would be to have a separate type within
> fictional universe that would at least contain these three properties:
>
> Fictional clone
> Cloned fictional character (disambiguation)
> Fictional clone created by
> ...
> Should probably  contain the 'Appears In These Fictional Universes'
> property as well (also a disambiguation)
>
>
>
> ~ Gordon
>
> <<< gordon at metaweb.com >>>
>
>
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