[Data-modeling] Type for groups/sets of people (or any entity?)

[Tom Morris]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Iain Sproat<iainsproat at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd recently thrown together a 'people' type for this purpose.  Cane & Abel,
> Brangelina and the Olsen twins are currently typed as such.

That's exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about (although the name
"people" seems a little awkward to me).

> But it feels like a quick hack, as it doesn't define any sort of
> relationship between the person and the group.  e.g. employee, spouse,
> sibling, band member etc..

The advantage of keeping it lightweight is that it can be reused more
widely.  Any cases where the nature of the relationship among group
members is important can be modeled with a more heavyweight structure.

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:41 PM, evening0star<evening0star at gmail.com> wrote:
> Have nothing to add other than there's a table of people with "and" in
> the topic title for possible splits on To Do Lists base.

Yup, that would be one of the initial applications -- to allow those
to be split while still retaining the topic which describes them
collectively and links back to Wikipedia AND allowing navigation
between the group and the individual members.

Tom