[Data-modeling] Olympics domain for review

[Jeff Prucher]

My main issue with this model is that it doesn't allow you to compare
medalists in the same event; adding a more generic "event" type (for "Men's
3m springboard" in addition to "Diving at the 1908 Summer Olympics - Men's
3m springboard") would alieviate this, but would also make entry more
cumbersome.  

For me the question is, do we sacrifice elegance in order to make use of WP
articles? The answer could well be "yes" -- it's a matter of what we think
we gain by using the WP articles vs. how much more complicated we think it
will be to use the model created around them. (In this case, the presumptive
model, since I'm hypothesizing an extra "event" type.)

Jeff

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> [mailto:data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of John 
> Giannandrea
> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:48 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Data-modeling] Olympics domain for review
> 
> 
> 
> when I took a crack at this, I modeled an olympic event for a 
> specific games.
> 
> http://mjtemplate.org/examples/schemas/type.html?id=/user/jg/d
efault_domain/olympic_games&mjt.server=http://www.freebase.com
> 
> The reason I did this is that we already have topics for 
> specific events, e.g.
> http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000004765687
> 
> I have temporarily published these types on sandbox so you 
> can see how it was intended to work.
> For example:
> 
> http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/en/1936_winter_olympics
> 
> 
> -jg
> 
> Kirrily Robert wrote:
> > So I have this user domain about the Olympics, at 
> http://www.freebase.com/view/user/skud/olympics and I'd love 
> some people to take a look at it.
> > 
> > The main thing that I'm undecided about is that the events 
> contested in a given Olympic Games and the medals awarded are 
> kind of redundant/denormalised.  That is, the same 
> information is appearing twice.  But if you make it so it 
> only appears once, under medals awarded, it would seem to 
> discourage people from entering in events for which the 
> medals are not yet awarded or are unknown.
> > 
> > The other thing I'm considering adding is demonstration 
> events/sports.
> > 
> > Comments welcome.
> > 
> > K.
> > 
> > --
> > Kirrily Robert
> > Freebase Community Director
> > kirrily at metaweb.com
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