[Data-modeling] State of the commons (M-P)

[Christopher R. Maden]

Kirrily Robert wrote:
> Martial arts: deathly silence. Is anyone using this?

I set it up with Niall at his provocation.  I think there was a sort of
understanding that domains like this would be eventual targets of
infobox mapping, but nothing happened there.  I think it’s a good domain
(if I do say so myself).  Hmm; 355 martial arts and 307 martial artists?
It’s not entirely unused.

> Measurement unit: solid, no work needed. (There was a recent thread  
> about removing all derivative units like "kilometre" and just leaving  
> "metre", but we're not going there.)

Yeah... not until MQL understands equivalencies.  Having to enter
astronomical distances in meters would be... irritating, at the least.

> Music: the stuff around musical artists and groups is fairly solid,  
> but things are really messy around albums, releases, songs, and  
> recordings of songs.  The schema doesn't support non-musical  
> recordings like dramatic performances or comedy.  We also need to do  
> something about Performances generally (musical, theatrical, spoken  
> word, etc).  Needs massive amounts of work, but we're scared of it.

There are open Jira tasks on refactoring sound recordings and live
performances away from music per se, whenever the will exists to act on
them.

> Opera: schema's not too bad, but admins fairly unresponsive.

As with anime/manga, I wonder how necessary the domain is on its own, as
opposed to as a base living at the intersection of theater and music.

~Chris
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