[Data-modeling] Which universe is that human from?

[Ed Laurent]

This seems to be another example of a topic from one ontology that is
similar to but different from another topic from a different ontology. Do
humans in the Star Wars universe always have exactly the same properties as
humans in the D&D universe? Probably not. For example, do D&D characters
have midichlorian (sp?) levels that can be quantified? I would therefore
create a separate human topic for each universe and possibly link them if
necessary (e.g., in case you want to find all instances of universes with
humans, in case you want to compare the traits of humans in one universe to
those of another). However, "Overkill" seems to be my middle name...

-Ed

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Jeff Fry <jfry at metaweb.com> wrote:

>  There's been conversation before about how confusing it can be that there
> are many<http://qa.sfo1.metaweb.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000b003f6>
> human<http://qa.sfo1.metaweb.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000025e3ad>
> topics<http://qa.sfo1.metaweb.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000002c0fb0>,
> most tied to different universes, and one<http://qa.sfo1.metaweb.com/view/en/human>tragically tethered in our non-fictional universe. Some likely merit it -
> Humans in the Star Wars and the Dungeons & Dragons universes might well have
> different properties, and certainly link to different Wikipedia articles.
>
> The topic for our own non-fictional species is the first one in relevance
> searches, and so many fictional characters (Marcie<http://www.freebase.com/view/en/marcie>,
> Spider-Man <http://qa.sfo1.metaweb.com/view/en/spider-man>, Nancy Drew<http://qa.sfo1.metaweb.com/view/en/nancy_drew>,
> etc.) are all linked back to this topic. To make things a bit sillier,
> someone noted that the Human Character Species is found in the Firefly
> fictional universe...and so now Ron Weasley, Captain Nemo, and Indiana Jones
> may well be caught in a crossfire between the Anglo-Sino Alliance and the
> Reavers.
>
> Cleanup is certainly needed, but I'm not really clear what the model is at
> this point? Does every universe need it's own Human topic? Probably not. If
> they don't, should those that don't have their own topic cluster around the
> topic for the non-fictional species? Or around a generic fictional human
> topic? And either way, should that topic list all or none of the universes
> it belongs to? If all, then we might need to stop having the Species
> property on Fictional Character list Universes that contain it as a
> disambiguator.
>
> What do you think?
> Jeff
>
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