[Data-modeling] Animal breeds and owners

[Jeff Prucher]

Weirdly, all my replies to this thread have failed to come through. So I'm
trying again.

I've posted the animal breeds types to the Biology commons. But one thing I
just noticed is that I didn't account for Breed Groups in the model at all.
That is, some organizations separate breeds into different groups, and each
does it differently, and this would be interesting to collect, I think.
These are my questions for you all:

The easiest thing to do is just to add another property to the Registration
CVT to link breed group to Breed and Registry (like this:
https://www.sandbox-freebase.com/view/biology/breed_registration).

Even with this, it's hard to simply get a list of all the breed groups that
belong to a given club, so should we add a property connecting Breed Group
to Registry, which would be a partial denormalization of the CVT properties?
The other issue is that a lot of kennel clubs have a "Hound Group", but
include different breeds in it. These should probably all be distinct
topics, even though they share a name, yes?

Thanks,
Jeff 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Prucher
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 12:34 PM
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> Subject: [Data-modeling] Animal breeds and owners
> 
> I'm working on abstracting some types from base types 
> relating to various animal breeds, and have a model put up on 
> sandbox for comment:
> 
> https://www.sandbox-freebase.com/view/biology/animal_breed
> 
> The type Animal Breed is intended to be a general type, 
> potentially for all domesticated animals. Separate types for 
> specific types of breed (dog breeds, cat breeds, etc.) can 
> then be made if there are animal-specific properties that are needed.
> 
> The other issue I'm working on is animal owners:
> https://www.sandbox-freebase.com/view/biology/owned_animal
> 
> This is basically just a way to show who owned which animal 
> and when. (The Animal Owner type can alos be a person, 
> company, organization, etc.)
> 
> Any comments are welcome.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeff
> 
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