[Data-modeling] Are Influence Nodes necessarily persons?
Tadhg O'Higgins
tadhg at metaweb.com
Fri Oct 31 00:26:00 UTC 2008
Would Influence Node be more useful/interesting if it didn't assume
personhood for its instances? Books, Films, Games, and Musical Groups
are all examples of things that seem like Influence Nodes but are not
persons.
We should consider removing the /people/person included type from
Influence Node for that reason. The alternatives I can see are to a)
create an "Influence <thing>" in each domain that might support one, or
b) create an "Influence Thing" type that's just like Influence Node but
doesn't include personhood. Neither of those seem as good a solution as
widening the scope of Influence Node.
Thoughts?
Tadhg
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