[Data-modeling] "Mentions" and "Mentioned In"

[Alf Eaton]

I'm actually thinking of more than just people, though that was the
most obvious example. Other examples could be "proteins mentioned in
scientific papers", "locations mentioned in fiction", or "buildings
mentioned in songs", etc ...

alf

2009/2/6 Ed Laurent <spatial.db at gmail.com>:
> I commented already in your "Mentions" discussion:
> http://www.freebase.com/type/schema/book/scholarly_work?domain=%2Fbook
>
> Now that I see how you are using this, I'm wondering if the "Acknowledged
> people" property of scholarly work would suffice if the description was
> broadened to include acknowledgments anywhere in the work:
> http://www.freebase.com/type/schema/book/scholarly_work?domain=%2Fbook
>
> -Ed
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Alf Eaton <lists at hubmed.org> wrote:
>>
>> I needed a way to link topics to the works they were mentioned in, so
>> created two prototype types:
>>
>> Work-Mentioned (equivalent to Work)
>> <http://www.freebase.com/type/schema/user/freebass/default_domain/work>
>> and Topic-Mentioned (equivalent to Topic)
>>
>> <http://www.freebase.com/type/schema/user/freebass/default_domain/topic_mentioned>,
>>
>> adding "Mentions" and "Mentioned In" as reciprocal properties for those
>> types.
>>
>> Here's a view making use of these properties:
>>
>> <http://www.freebase.com/view/user/freebass/default_domain/views/the_characters_of_physical_law>
>> derived from the "Mentioned In" links shown here:
>>
>> <http://www.freebase.com/view/en/the_character_of_physical_law?domain=%2Fuser%2Ffreebass%2Fdefault_domain>
>>
>> If this makes sense, perhaps these reciprocal properties could be
>> added to the official "Work" and "Topic" types?
>>
>> alf
>>
>> P.S. I just noticed that there isn't an overarching "Work" type, just
>> "Written Work", "Book", "Film", etc. so the "Mentions" property would
>> have to be added to each of those, and "Mentioned In" would have to
>> allow those as targets.
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