[Data-modeling] Date-mediating Website/Website Owner types

[Jeff Prucher]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com 
> [mailto:data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of Reilly Hayes
> Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 1:08 PM
> To: Freebase data modeling mailing list
> Subject: Re: [Data-modeling] Date-mediating Website/Website 
> Owner types
> 
> 
> On Jul 14, 2009, at 12:58 PM, Jeff Prucher wrote:
> 
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com
> >> [mailto:data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of Kirrily 
> >> Robert
> >> Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 12:12 PM
> >> To: Freebase data modeling mailing list
> >> Subject: Re: [Data-modeling] Date-mediating Website/Website Owner 
> >> types
> >>
> >> On Jul 14, 2009, at 11:59 AM, Jeff Prucher wrote:
> >>> The next issue is whether, if we decide that lumping is 
> the better 
> >>> option, is it better still to go whole hog and just use the
> >> Asset type
> >>> (/business/asset) instead?
> >>
> >> I own my personal website, but I am not a business.
> >>
> >
> > Nothing in the asset model suggests that you are: the Asset 
> Owner type 
> > has no properties. It's in the business domain, but so is Employer, 
> > and it's equally possible to be an employer without being a 
> business 
> > as it is a website owner.
> >
> 
> Is /Business the domain that deals with the concept of 
> property and ownership most abstractly?

It seems to, yes. I don't think this by conscious design or anything, but it
seems to be where it ended up.

Jeff