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

[Tom Morris]

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Scott Meyer <sm at metaweb.com> wrote:

> So how about creating a generic mention type which would be a superset
> of all types of mention.  The thing mentioned (what) is universal, but
> the location of the mention varies from domain to domain
> (chapter-section-paragraph-line, book-verse, act-scene, time from start)
> Define as many as we can think of and let users fill in whichever are
> appropriate to their domain.

For time based media types, you'll want either start and end times or
a start time and a duration.  There's an implicit text length hiding
in your quoted text property.

Tom