[Data-modeling] proposed change to two types: /architecture/architectural_firm and /architecture/engineering_firm

[Jack Park]

If I may step in and ask a really naive question (newbie alert), to
what extent do the emerging microformat and other standardized
vocabularies, e.g. FOAF, SIOC, and so forth, affect schema design?

Thanks in advance.
Jack

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:21 PM, brendan <brendan at metaweb.com> wrote:
> This is in progress... gave you all 4 months to object :)
>
> -  /architecture/architecture_firm/partner will not be removed, just
> hidden in the UI so users won't add more values.
> - /architecture/architecture_firm has an included type /business/
> employer
> - all  /architecture/architecture_firm/partner values have been copied
> over to /business/employer/employees
>
> Next up the same basic pattern for /architecture/engineering_firm
>
> Note: the saved views really helped here (yes I did all the data
> migration through the freebase.com UI!)
>
> http://www.freebase.com/view/user/brendan/default_domain/views/populated_firms
>
> the filter specifies firms where "Firm Partners" is not empty
>
> brendan
>
> On Jul 14, 2008, at 5:58 PM, brendan wrote:
>
>> I'd like to draw some cleaner lines here.
>>
>> Both of these types have properties for "partners". It's been pointed
>> out that this is probably asserting too much and lacks the time span
>> of their tenure.  It just seems more sensible to remove these
>> properties and specify a "suggested type"  /business/employer which
>> has a property that can encompass these "facts" in a more general
>> way.  There's very little data involved, so I can handle migrating the
>> links.
>>
>> brendan
>>
>>
>>
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