[Data-modeling] Community (repost)

[Paul Houle]

spencer kelly wrote:
> An open schema system would change the rate freebase grows and how it
> feels to contribute. Lets actually do it. I don't know how to push for
> freebase policy change, do you? This change would make the work done
> in freebase more useful, our types stronger and more accountable, and
> make the community more active and less awkward.
> Please tell your thoughts on this, all you smart freebase people -
>   

    You need to have pros designing your schemas:  preferably both pro 
schema people and subject pros,  but I'd pick a pro schema designer any 
day.  I've seen too projects where man-months of rework were caused by a 
bad schema.

    If you let people do anything they want with schemas,  you're going 
to be stuck with the chaos of Web 2.0,  and isn't that what we're trying 
to get past?