[Data-modeling] Music Festival, Festival Tours, and Recurring Festivals

[Faye Li]

I like it. :) There's been a lot of unfruitful discussions regarding 
"Recurring Events" events, which if it existed would make a nice base 
type here. If you want to create one that'd be great -- I can imagine 
events like "Shakespeare in the Park" be modeled with a very similar 
data model. Otherwise, this stands alone just fine.

I think adding a property (or two) for the festival creator/organizer 
would be good.

I got a little mixed up in the type and property names following the 
data. A "recurring music festival" has "tour occurrences" called "music 
festival tours" (that point back to it via property "occurrence of 
festival") with at least one "tour stop" that is a "music festival"... I 
think changing that property "occurrence of festival" to "occurrence of 
recurring festival", although slightly awkward, might help reinforce the 
distinction between a festival instance and a recurring one.

The properties for performing music artists between a "music festival 
tour" and a "music festival" would benefit from having a consistent 
name; currently one is  "full lineup" and the other is "artists". I 
understand the distinction, but I think using the same name for 
properties that expect the same kind of information (not to mention the 
same type) makes sense.

-- Faye


Micah Saul wrote:
> Hey All-
>
> So, I've been playing around in my personal domain with Music  
> Festivals (like Woodstock), Festival Tours (like Lollapalooza), and  
> Recurring Festivals (like Woodstock and Lollapalooza).
>
> What I've got so far is those three types, and a few examples of each  
> with some data filled in:
>
> Woodstock (the festival in 1969 and the recurring festival of which it  
> was a part):
> http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/en/woodstock_festival
>
> Woodstock 99 (a festival that took place in 1999 and was an instance  
> of the recurring festival called Woodstock):
> http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/en/woodstock_1999
>
> Taste of Chaos (a recurring tour):
> http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/en/taste_of_chaos
>
> Taste of Chaos 2007 (an instance of the previous):
> http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000006c466fa
>
> Taste of Chaos 2007 Everett(an instance of the previous):
> http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000007bd1d29
>
> Any suggestions? Does it make sense? This is my first schema model, so  
> any feedback would be much appreciated.
>
> micah
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