[Data-modeling] Subject areas for award honors

[Jeff Prucher]

So it turns out that lots of users have been entering various discoveries,
theories, processes, and the like as the "winning work" for Nobel laureates.
Which results in topics like DNA being typed as award-winning works, which
is not what that type is really meant for.  Mike Schwe has suggested adding
a "subject" property to the award honor type.  (Note that this would apply
to specific grants of the award, not the award itself -- thus, the Nobel
Prize in Physiology and Medicine itself might have as disciplines "science",
"physiology", and "medicine", but the 1959 Nobel would have only "DNA" as
the subject.)

This would likely apply primarily to science awards, which are often given
for work in a particular area (or with a particular problem, process,
organism, etc.), and only very rarely to arts awards, say. 

Here's a view of what it might look like:
<https://www.freebase.com/view/base/nobelprizes/nobel_prize_winner>

What do you think?

Jeff Prucher
Type Librarian & Ontologist
Metaweb Technologies, Inc.