[Data-modeling] Military Unit

[Reilly Hayes]

As a longtime wargamer, I can say with some authority that there is a  
large body of literature that discusses the issues of data modeling  
with regard to military units.  A quick google for  "data model"  &  
"order of battle" will reveal some of them.



On Apr 8, 2009, at 3:15 PM, Jeff Prucher wrote:

> The problem with separating wars from component conflicts has always  
> been that they have the same metadata, which is often a sign that  
> two things should be the same type.  Having lots of different kinds  
> of events be part of an event is strength of the event model, I  
> think; if you're only interested in a subset of them, you can easily  
> filter by type.
>
> Unless I'm wrong, of course, and the metadata should be different  
> for the two?
>
> Jeff
>
> From: data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com [mailto:data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com 
> ] On Behalf Of spencer kelly
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>
> this is a really great schema,
> maybe it could also be used to model weaponry, warboats, awarded- 
> medals, military strategies...
>
> also, hmm.. could we maybe use a 'war' type?
> i get how its being done now, and while i usually like it when  
> people make use of the event type, i think that the war-to-military  
> conflict relationship warrants its own typing maybe? as they share  
> the 'why' data about a war- so queries like how many military people  
> are still alive from ww2  are one step easier - speeches, protests  
> are also 'events included' in ww2 ... so maybe a 'war' type?
> i dont know. thats a tough call. i like how currently we can say  
> william Ernest Staton participated in conflict -WW2 , if we dont  
> know which exact battles.
> 'included in event' is always a little vague.
> so err, tricky one. what do others think about this issue?
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