[Data-modeling] Olympics domain for review

[Faye Li]

I think "men's 3 meter springboard at the 1932 Olympics" event can be 
modeled as an occurrence of the "men's 3 meter springboard" Olympic game 
category, by adding a single "category" property to the "Olympic Event" 
type. Just like this particular event is part of the "1932 Summer 
Olympics" via the "Games" property. This way, the individual 
occurrences/events are modeled as individual topics so that specific 
data can be entered about the. At the same time, there's an overall 
event category that links all of them together so that they can be 
viewed and compared more easily via a page not dissimilar to the topic 
"Academy Award for Best Director", which congregates all winners of the 
same category together on one page:

http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/en/academy_award_for_best_director

I'm guessing Olympic game categories ("men's 3 meter spring board", 
"women's tennis singles") don't change very often. As long as the 
individual games are linked to the category, a congregate page like the 
one above can be done easily.

-- Faye

John Giannandrea wrote:
> A specific event does have a 'sport' so I could imaging it having an event too.
>
> The 10,000 meters is a real thing and already exists.
> http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/en/long-distance_track_event
>
> In general I like the fact that the Men's 3 meter springboard at the 1932 olympics
> is modeled as a topic.  
>
> http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000004765687
>
> It was a real sporting event, like the 2006 FIFA World Cup final.  We may have images of it, and there may be more to say about that specific event.
>
> I dont see the argument for this being overly complex, when we have all the data already.
>
> -jg
>
> Jeff Prucher wrote:
>   
>> 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.)
>>     
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