[Data-modeling] Citations type being deprecated (affects medicine domain, too)

[Faye Harris]

+1.

Jeff Prucher wrote:
> There is a type in the Media Common domain called "Citation" <URL:
> http://www.freebase.com/type/view/media_common/citation>. This is a leftover
> placeholder from a time before we had really figured out how citations would
> work. It's been marked as deprecated for awhile now, and I'm going to delete
> it. It's the expected type of a few properties, so these will have to be
> changed.  Specifically, it is expected by the property "references" of the
> types "Disease of Condition" and "Medical Treatment"; these properties have
> no data in them. Because the disease or treatment would presumably be the
> subject of the work being cited, these properties aren't really necessary,
> so I propose just deleting them.  It is also expected by the "references"
> property of "Medical Trial"; there are a few instances in this property, and
> I propose changing the expected type to "Written Work" (which is parallel to
> how we treat citations from scholary publications), and migrate the existing
> data over.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Jeff Prucher
> Type Librarian & Ontologist
> Metaweb Technologies, Inc. 
>
>
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