[Data-modeling] the commons / non distinction is a farce

[Iain Sproat]

soccer <http://schemas.freebaseapps.com/domain?id=/soccer> - but I've worked
out a new schema in a
draft<http://www.freebase.com/view/base/associationfootball>,
which will be moved across; so there should be some big changes shortly.
engineering <http://schemas.freebaseapps.com/domain?id=/engineering> - my
bad, was tasked to look at this and didn't make much progress.  Spencer and
I threw some ideas in engineering draft<http://engineeringdraft.freebase.com/>,
and there's also a lot of good ideas in the material
science<http://www.freebase.com/view/user/danny/materials_science>base.
 I'll make a resolution to get back round to this....

And there's a few with not very many types/data:
atom feeds <http://schemas.freebaseapps.com/domain?id=/atom>
bicycles <http://schemas.freebaseapps.com/domain?id=/bicycles>
geology <http://schemas.freebaseapps.com/domain?id=/geology>

Iain

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Robert Cook <robert at metaweb.com> wrote:

> I agree that that the most important thing we could do now is list out
> the domains which are not up to the community's standards and either
> fix them in the near term or move them to bases until they have
> properly gestated.
>
> It would be very helpful if people could list the domains they think
> need serious work and what they'd like to be done and we'll work
> together to fix them.  I think this mailing list is a good place to
> air pent up concerns about domains and if it becomes too detailed,
> we'll move it to a different venue.
>
> There are a couple of domains that I believe need work:
>
> Boats - http://schemas.freebaseapps.com/domain?id=/boats -- I agree
> with Tom, this is a bit of a mess.  (And maybe this should be renamed
> to "Powered naval vessels".) It was started by Patrick, who made great
> initial progress 2 years ago, but he no longer works for Metaweb.
>
> Anime/manga - http://schemas.freebaseapps.com/domain?id=/anime_manga
> --  Anime blends media types (film, video, OVA) in a way that forces
> questions about property delegation.  There is a lot of really good
> data waiting to be loaded from Wikipedia, but the schemas need to be
> figured out first.
>
> Others?
>
> R
> On Jun 30, 2009, at 8:14 AM, Tom Morris wrote:
>
> > My preferred fix for the disparity between sucky Commons domains and
> > excellent private (base) domains is to see the quality of the Commons
> > domains improve.
> >
> > I have no real desire to win fame and glory by maintaining a Sailing
> > domain (which is actually called sails.freebase.com because Jamie
> > grabbed Sailing and then never put anything in it).  I did it because
> > it seemed like too much work to get the Boats domain whipped into
> > shape so it could deal with things which weren't engine powered
> > military ships in a reasonable fashion.
> >
> > Now perhaps a more effective promotion mechanism would encourage me to
> > create Boats2 and lobby for its promotion based on merit, but what I'd
> > really prefer is for the admins of Boats to respond to the half dozen
> > schema suggestions that I and others have made, even if just to say
> > "No way - that's stupid."
> >
> > In some ways this is just another aspect of the same problem, but I
> > wanted to present a slightly different emphasis on ways to solve it.
> >
> > Tom
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