[Data-modeling] Multiple Fictional Universes

[Gordon Mackenzie]

Here's my initial stab at it with a small spork and plastic knife:

http://sandbox.freebase.com/type/schema/fictional_universe/fictional_universe

~ Gordon

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On Nov 7, 2008, at 8:43 PM, Tadhg O'Higgins wrote:

> Reaction was generally positive to my suggestion for parent and child
> universes for the Fictional Universe type, but I don't think we  
> managed
> to solve some of the problems, particularly the issue of where the
> "Mirror, Mirror" universe would go. One of the problems arising out of
> this would be the necessity of creating a multiverse parent-universe
> topic to hold the original the "Mirror, Mirror" universe, which seems
> rather heavier than is friendly.
>
> My revised suggestion here is to add a "Sibling Universe" property as
> well as "Parent Universe" and "Sub-universe". This would let users add
> the "Mirror, Mirror" universe as a sibling of the main line, rather  
> than
> having to create a parent and then add it as a child. This would also
> let users see prominent alternate universes such as this one on the
> topic page for the main universe, rather than having to go to its  
> parent.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Tadhg
>
>> How should we treat fictional universes within other fictional
>> universes? Or "alternate universes" within, e.g., the Star Trek  
>> universe?
>>
>> My initial thought is to have "Parent Universe" and "Sub-universes"
>> properties, but I'm not sure they cover all the cases. In addition,  
>> we
>> might run into the problem of having to use the Star Trek universe  
>> as a
>> hold-all, containing both the "main" Star Trek universe (which most
>> people will want to see data about when they arrive at the page) and
>> also the minor alternate universes (e.g. from
>> <http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/ 
>> 9202a8c04000641f800000000021eea5>) as
>> separate topics connected as sub-universes.
>>
>> Any thoughts on how these relationships should be handled?
>>
>> Tadhg
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