[Data-modeling] Animal breeds and owners

Paul Houle paul at ontology2.com
Thu Feb 5 02:06:25 UTC 2009


Jeff Prucher wrote:
> 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?
>   
    Different breed associations also disagree about what the breeds are.

    For instance,  the Frisian Horse Association of the Netherlands 
doesn't allow Frisians to be crossed with other breeds.  There's another 
registry that does,  and the main one doesn't recognize them.




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