[Data-modeling] Refactoring of some Olympics types

[Jeff Prucher]

Good point. Are you suggesting a boolean property "Won"?  There is an
additional difficulty -- not all awards have nominees, which may add some
ambiguity: if a user enters a Nobel laureate, but doesn't select the "win"
boolean, we end up with a slightly confusing state. (I suggest that user's
might forget the "win" property because there's no way to lose a Nobel;
you're either a laureate or not.)

If we did merge   Award-winner and Award Nominee (and Award-winning
work/Award-nominated work), what should we call the resulting types?

Jeff


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of Faye Harris
> Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 4:13 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Data-modeling] Refactoring of some Olympics types
> 
> I'm all for it.
> 
> Incidentally, is there a plan to do the same refactoring for 
> Award Category? It has two properties similar to an Olympic 
> event's competitors and medalists: Winners, and Nominees, 
> with the nominees naturally including the winners as well.
> 
> -- Faye
> 
> 
> 
> Jeff Prucher wrote:
> > In (early) preparation for the 2010 Olympics, we'd like to refactor 
> > two CVT types to make the data a little cleaner.  
> Currently, for every 
> > competition (e.g. Women's 100 meter relay), there are two 
> properties: 
> > one for the medalists, and one for all competitors (which 
> should include the medalists).
> > We'd like to merge them, so that all competitors are listed in a 
> > single property, and any medals won are a property of the 
> CVT (so that 
> > athletes who do not win medals simply have no value in that field).
> >
> > Affected types would be Olympic Athlete, Olympic Event Competition, 
> > and Olympic Competition/Athlete Relationship.  Specific 
> details of the 
> > migration are here: https://bugs.freebase.com/browse/DA-716
> >
> > If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >
> > Jeff Prucher
> > Type Librarian & Ontologist
> > Metaweb Technologies, Inc. 
> >   
> 
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