[Data-modeling] Products with ingredients

[Paul Mackay]

Any comments on the mail I sent 2 days ago?

cheers

paul

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Jeff Prucher <jeff at metaweb.com> wrote:

>
> ----- "Robert Cook" <robert at metaweb.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > One solution would be to create a topic with a long name -- enter it
> >
> > exactly as it appears on the label such as "Enriched flour - (wheat,
> >
> > niacin, iron, baby powder, sawdust, DDT)".  And then it's not
> > necessary to enter the subingredients or they can be added later.  And
> >
> > the subingredients could be made a disambiguator for good measure.
> >
> > This also makes data input less painful and defers the structure to
> > later, which is probably the best way to actually get data into the
> > system.
> >
> > Of course, this approach will in time create too many topics that
> > appear when one types "enriched flour" into Freebase Suggest, but if
> >
> > the user types in one of the subingredients it should give more
> > precise results.
>
> This would answer. Anyone else have any comments or thoughts on this before
> I load the schema?
>
> Jeff
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