[Data-modeling] State of the commons (G-L)

[Kirrily Robert]

Games: Stable, hasn't changed in ages.  Some properties have been  
suggested, but admins unresponsive.

Geology: new commons, schema is decent though sparse (only two  
types).  Needs to tie in better with Physical Geography at the very  
least.

Government: extensive, fairly stable, ongoing discussions usually  
productive and promptly actioned.

Hobbies: a new Commons.  Schema fairly clean, could use more filling  
out in terms of data.

Ice Hockey: same as many sports domains, this is kind of gathering  
dust, with no recent schema work, discussions, etc.

Influence: Only one type.  Admins unresponsive.  Ongoing discussion of  
whether non-Person topics (eg. musical groups, schools of thought) can  
be influences has never been resolved.  If "no", we should move this  
into People.  If "yes", we should change the schema to reflect that.

Internet: various discussions in recent months, but nothing ever seems  
to get resolved/actioned.  Admins more or less unresponsive.  (See  
also: Computers.  The two seem to have similar, and often overlapping,  
problems.)

Language: What's there is fairly uncontroversial, but there are  
various requests outstanding for us to handle things like phonemes,  
letters/glyphs within writing systems, parts of speech, dictionary- 
style data, etc.

Law: needs serious work.  We have an active task to promote some stuff  
into this domain, and we need to take a look at the "Crime" base (http://www.freebase.com/view/base/crime 
) and see about promoting bunches of that too.

Library: Currently only handles public libraries, though it does those  
quite well.  Needs serious work to allow for government, academic,  
private libraries.  I have a draft for museums, libraries, and  
archives at http://mladraft.freebase.com/ but it's not very far along  
yet.

Location: the is-a/has-a thing is ongoing.  Any changes will break  
LOTS of stuff so it's kinda hairy.  See also: discussions about extra- 
terrestrial locations that cross over with the Astronomy and  
Spaceflight domains.



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Kirrily Robert
Freebase Community Director
kirrily at metaweb.com
http://freebase.com/