[Data-modeling] modeling products currently in production

[Gordon Mackenzie]

How do we capture terms served for politicians for a particular  
political position? They often can be in and out of office or in and  
out of head of a chairmanship of a committee. CVT right? It's the only  
way I know of capturing multiple production runs.

~ Gordon

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On Nov 10, 2008, at 4:50 PM, Tim Kientzle wrote:

> I would think a date property "discontinued_on" would be more useful.
>
> Anything without that property would still be in production.
>
> Of course, this scheme gets confused about products that go out of
> production and then go back into production.
>
> Tim
>
> On Nov 10, 2008, at 4:48 PM, Michael Masouras wrote:
>
>> I 'd like to create a type for some products (specifically speakers
>> and other audio products) and one very useful piece of information is
>> whether a product is currently in production or has been  
>> discontinued.
>>
>> This might be a valuable piece of info across all products - is there
>> a common type I should be using ?
>>
>> Alternatively, would a boolean property "in_production" work or is
>> another approach better?
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
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