[Data-modeling] Databases

[Ed Laurent]

"Database website" is still a work in progress. Maybe it should be named
"Database home page" now? Originally, it was meant to describe a database
that can be accessed online as opposed to one that sits off the net. That
started getting messy. Now I have it set as the home page for a database,
regardless of whether the database is accessible online or not. Currently
I've set this as a Topic instead of Webpage so that it can contain
properties such as links to other pages, including any data portals, and can
reciprocate with the database. The Database website may or may not be a
website (i.e., it could be a page within a site). Examples of its current
use:

Online database
Avian Knowledge Network
(Database)<http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000813e6e0>
Avian Knowledge Network (Database
website)<http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000813e685>the
home page of the database

Offline database
Global Ant Database
(Database)<http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000813db6f>
Global Ant Collaboration (Database
website)<http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000813db63>the
page that describes the database among other things

I am completely open to changing any of this.

-Ed


On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Jeff Prucher <jeff at metaweb.com> wrote:

>  The basic structure looks pretty good, from a high-level review,
> anyway. I'm not sure I understand the "database website" type, though. Can
> you point us to an example with the properties filled in?
>
> Jeff
>
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> *From:* data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com [mailto:
> data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com] *On Behalf Of *Ed Laurent
> *Sent:* Monday, May 05, 2008 11:52 PM
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> *Subject:* [Data-modeling] Databases
>
> I created a generic Database type<http://www.freebase.com/tools/schema/user/spatialed/database/database>to describe various databases that I find. This type is more generic than bio2rdf's
> bioinformatics database type<http://www.freebase.com/view/user/bio2rdf/default_domain/bm>,
> which was the only other one I could find. I created a new Database domain<http://www.freebase.com/view/user/spatialed/database>to hold it and the types that make up its properties (and a database
> website type<http://www.freebase.com/tools/schema/user/spatialed/database/database_website>that is a container for database and website co-types). I'm interested to
> hear what people think about these and how they can be improved. I left a
> message for bio2rdf about the possibility of breaking his  specialty type
> into a couple co-types that separate out his specialty properties from these
> generic ones. Otherwise there will be several redundanci es.
>
> Thanks,
> -Ed
>
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