[Data-modeling] Adoptive and other relationships

[Faye Harris]

"Foster" sounds good. As for the various kinds of fostering, I think the 
distinction would be useful if there's data to justify it, or even the 
understanding to categorize it (historical as well as geographical?), 
but I'm fine with postponing it until there's an actual need.

-- Faye


Jeff Prucher wrote:
> Foster sounds like a good addition. We could add it a couple ways. One is with a single "Foster" topic, and acknowledge the fact that the meaning varies over time and location. The other is to create multiple Foster topics for the various kinds of fostering.
>
> Jeff
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Faye Harris" <faye at metaweb.com>
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> Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 2:53:14 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
> Subject: Re: [Data-modeling] Adoptive and other relationships
>
> I like the model.
>
> Adoption is a legal process today in most countries, but used to be 
> less...formal. Should I just use "Adoptive" to describe foster 
> relationships of yesterday where kids may never have been legally 
> adopted, or is there a better word for it that should be added to the 
> "type of relationship" enumeration? Even the word "foster" carries a 
> legal meaning today. I'm thinking of -- who else -- Edgar Allan Poe, 
> whose foster parents, the Allans, never became his legal adoptive parents.
>
> -- Faye
>
>
> Jeff Prucher wrote:
>   
>> Following up on a thread from while I was out (now also known as <https://bugs.freebase.com/browse/DA-694>), I've put up a model for mediating parent/child relationships, including a relationship type property to the sibling relationship, on sandbox.
>>
>> Schema: <https://www.sandbox-freebase.com/type/schema/people/person>
>> The properties to note are "parents 2", "children 2", and "siblings".
>>
>> And what could be better for sample data than the British royal family?  Camilla's biological children are a particularly nice test case -- they each have 1 biological sibling, 2 step siblings (Charles' sons), and 1 half sibling* (from their father's second marriage).  They also have 2 biological and 1 step-parent.  See <https://www.sandbox-freebase.com/view/en/laura_lopes> for an example.
>>
>> The relationship types are enumerated lists; more values can be added if needed -- I just populated them with what I thought were likely values.
>>
>> And just to reiterate Robert's earlier comment, if we do do this, it will totally break any application that uses the parent/child relationship, of which there are probably many. Not necessarily a reason not to do this, but just to keep that in mind.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>> *Note: technically they have three half siblings, but hey, it's only a model.
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