[Data-modeling] Professional sports teams

[Jeff Prucher]

I've gotten support for this idea off-line as well, so I'm going to go ahead
and create the new type. The migration of the properties (Owners and Draft
Picks) from the Sports Team type will happen at some point in the future. 

Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com 
> [mailto:data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of Dan Milbrath
> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 5:09 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Data-modeling] Professional sports teams
> 
> I'd probably vote for having two separate types -- though it 
> seems we could live with it either way.
> - danm
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Prucher" <jeff at metaweb.com>
> To: "Freebase data modeling mailing list" <data-modeling at freebase.com>
> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 3:02:20 PM (GMT-0800) America/Los_Angeles
> Subject: [Data-modeling] Professional sports teams
> 
> I recently added a type for school sports teams
> (http://www.freebase.com/view/sports/school_sports_team) to 
> the commons sports domain. This type has "sports team" as an 
> included type 
> (http://www.freebase.com/view/sports/sports_team), but some 
> of the properties on Sports Team are not applicable to 
> non-professional sports teams (either school-based or 
> amateur). These properties are Owner(s) and Draft Picks. My 
> question is, should we move these two properties to a new 
> type called Professional Sports Team, or leave them where 
> they are with the understanding that they will not be 
> applicable to many topics?  
> 
> As I see it, abstracting them to a new type makes the model a 
> bit more complicated, since there's one more type to add. But 
> it also provides extra semantic value -- by typing something 
> Professional Sports Team, you would be asserting something 
> about the team, even if the two properties were blank 
> (similar to the way the type Deceased Person can assert that 
> someone is dead, even without knowing the date, place, or 
> cause of death). 
> 
> I also don't know how important this distiction between 
> professional and non-professional teams is. It matters 
> somewhat for the major sports in the US, but it seems less 
> important in association football, if I understand things correctly.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Jeff Prucher
> Type Librarian & Ontologist
> Metaweb Technologies, Inc. 
> 
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