[Data-modeling] Structured or typed weblinks?

[Don Jackson]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Christopher R. Maden
<crism at metaweb.com> wrote:
> The Freebase data model allows specific roles to be assigned to
> weblinks; this is done by creating a property with a URI value or a
> template.

This still sounds good.

Does a template have to be used?  The issue in this case is that not  
all URIs I
want to use will fit into any sort of structured template schema.

> The question, then, is what rôles are desired for restaurant links?

The roles I would initially propose for restaurants include:

Authorized Website
Menu
Yelp
OpenTable
Boorah
Exterior Photo
Interior Photo

Here are the values I would assign to those links for Manresa  
restaurant in Los Gatos:

Authorized Website		http://manresarestaurant.com/
Menu					http://manresarestaurant.com/menu/Menu.pdf
Yelp					http://www.yelp.com/biz/manresa-restaurant-los-gatos
OpenTable				http://www.opentable.com/rest_profile.aspx?rid=2026&ref=10003&ttr=1 
    (this might be ammenable to a template)
Boorah					http://www.boorah.com/restaurants/CA/los-gatos/manresa-restaurant/3C09571953.html


On Mar 20, 2009, at 10:06 AM, Tom Morris wrote:
> The mechanism described by Chris is used for the U.S. National
> Register of Historic Places and the Congressional Bioguide entries,
> but one limitation to be aware of is that it currently only allows for
> a single URL to be displayed for each entry.  Also, since the template
> is tied to an enumeration, no two restaurants can share the URL.  They
> must all be unique in the namespace used for the enumeration.  You can
> see some examples at:
>
> http://www.freebase.com/view/en/ted_kennedy
> http://www.freebase.com/view/en/washington_monument
>
> If you're interested in pursuing this approach, there are cookbook
> entries for modeling the enumeration and the URI template, but you'll
> need to do some of the enumeration setup through the explore/explore2
> views since the schema editor no longer supports the method described
> in the cookbook.

I have found the following references about this topic:

	http://www.freebase.com/view/en/creating_enumerated_properties
	http://www.freebase.com/view/en/creating_uri_templates

But I'm not confident I understand how to implement what I want based  
on those entries.

I'd appreciate some further advice or help!

Don