[Data-modeling] Families

[Jeff Prucher]

Thanks again to everyone who commented. The new properties have been added
here:
https://www.freebase.com/type/schema/people/family?domain=%2Fpeople

Jeff 

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> [mailto:data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Prucher
> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 4:47 PM
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> 
> I'm working on expanding the schema for Families 
> (/people/family), and am thinking about adding a few 
> properties. In addition to members, families can have 
> founders (the person who brought the family to prominence -- 
> the Family type is intended for prominent families, with the 
> knowledge that "prominent"
> is highly subjective), countries in which they were prominent 
> (to enable searches for "prominent families of France", 
> etc.), and a time during which they became prominent.  
> 
> The schema is here:
> http://sandbox.freebase.com/type/schema/people/family?domain=%2Fpeople
> 
> A couple filled-in examples are:
> http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000005525723
> http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/en/rothschild_family
> 
> Comments welcome.
> 
> Jeff Prucher
> Type Librarian & Ontologist
> Metaweb Technologies, Inc. 
> 
> PS - the originating task is here: 
> https://bugs.freebase.com/browse/DA-466
> 
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