[Data-modeling] Subject areas for award honors

[Tom Morris]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 6:18 PM, 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?

It's hard to tell what impact this would have on the data entry side
of things which is, I think, where the problem is.  Will users get
presented with input fields for both "winning work" and "subject" or
will the awards be split into two different types, each with just one
of those properties as disambiguators?

Tom