[Data-modeling] Olympics domain for review

[Bryan Cheung]

I think this is a great start.

This may be a little off topic, but hopefully a pertinent conversation  
for data-modeling:

I'm interested if we can generalize some of these types to use them  
across all sports types.  For example, let's say I wanted to know all  
the events Michael Jordan has won.  He was part of the Mens Basketball  
Dream Team that won gold in 1992, also part of the Chicago Bulls which  
won numerous NBA Championships, and who knows how many celebrity golf  
tournaments, or, hypothetically, a minor league baseball championship.

If we had a general Sports Event, with a Sports Event Winner and other  
types to support the model, then we wouldn't have to query the Olympic  
Sports types, Basketball types, Golf types and Baseball types to find  
all the events Michael Jordan (or a team he was on) won.

However, it may be rare that we have many crossover athletes like  
Michael Jordan, Bo Jackson, or perhaps a decathlete that wins sporting  
events across different domains.  Additionally, the nuances of each  
sport can make it hard to abstract a specific sporting event into a  
general one.

Do data-modelers see any benefit to normalizing the sports event /  
championship award?  Or should we contain each different sport within  
its own domain?

Bryan


On Mar 26, 2008, at 11:26 AM, 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.
>
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> Freebase Community Director
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