[Data-modeling] State of the commons (R-

[Kirrily Robert]

Radio: Um, what?  Sparse schema, though I can see how it is analogous  
to TV.  Needs work.

Rail: Fairly recent.  What's there is solid, but needs additional  
properties for diesel/electric/steam locomotives and their specific  
data (some of which is/was waiting on the Engineering commons).  Also  
needs data imports to fill it out.

Religion: not bad; there are some known problems, though, around  
Deities, what religion they belong to, and what they are the deity of  
(eg. Bacchus = wine).  Responsive admins.

Royalty and nobility: relatively new and stable.

Soccer: considerable work underway by Iain, who's recently been made  
an admin in Soccer and is working out his stuff in a draft base.

Spaceflight: extra-terrestrial locations strike again.  I notice that http://www.freebase.com/type/schema/spaceflight/satellite 
  has an included type from outside the commons -- eep!  That needs  
fixing for sure.  In short: needs work.

Sports: complicated and difficult.  Discussions are fairly productive,  
but I'm not sure how many things are actually actioned/resolved.  See http://www.freebase.com/discuss/threads/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000bde3b66 
  for example.

Tennis: Yet another specific sport domain that nobody's really  
admining or even using much.

Theater: needs work around Performances (see also: Music, Opera,  
etc).  What's there seems to be fairly uncontroversial though.

Time: fairly solid and uncontroversial, in terms of schema.

Transportation: has pockets of difficulty, mostly around metropolitan  
transit.  Admins are fairly responsive to discussion posts, but things  
don't always seem to come to a resolution.

Travel: recent promotion to Commons, fairly solid and uncontroversial.

TV: fairly stable, admins responsive.  Lots of talk around how to  
model reality show contestants, judges, etc; we should probably try  
and come up with a general solution to this if we can.

Visual arts: solid, stable, admins responsive, yay!

*wipes brow*



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Kirrily Robert
Freebase Community Director
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