[Data-modeling] Subject areas for award honors

[Jeff Prucher]

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> [mailto:data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of Tom Morris
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> 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?

It would be a new property on the existing Award Honor CVT. 

Jeff