[Data-modeling] Subject areas for award honors

[Iain Sproat]

That would also work for lifetime achievement award for service to a
particular industry.  The industry (film, music etc.) could be noted as the
subject.+1

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Jeff Prucher <jeff at metaweb.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
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