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

[Kirrily Robert]

Oops, that's R-Z, or realy, R-V.

K.

On Jul 1, 2009, at 2:27 PM, Kirrily Robert wrote:

> 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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