[Data-modeling] electricity in the commons

[Kirrily Robert]

You know, I'm not really trying to model anything!  Or rather, I'm  
*trying* to model locomotives, and have no particular interest in  
electricity per se.  I just want a type for AC/DC (not the band!), and  
it seemed like it should go *somewhere* in the commons.  Sounds like  
you know much more about this than I do :)

K.

On 03/03/2009, at 1:49 PM, Reilly Hayes wrote:

>
> It seems to me that you are trying to model more than types of  
> current.  You are trying to model power-systems.  For example,  
> alternating current used in both single and polyphase (two phase and  
> three phase) power systems.
>
> Just a thought.
>
> -r
>
> On Mar 3, 2009, at 11:57 AM, Kirrily Robert wrote:
>
>> On 03/03/2009, at 11:50 AM, Tom Morris wrote:
>>> Why not start with
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Electrical_components or some
>>> derivative?  That would allow things to get automatically typed
>>> (hopefully).
>>
>> Yes, I did that to some extent already with http://electric.freebase.com/view/base/electric/views/electronic_component
>>
>>> I just added a dozen or so components off the top of my head and  
>>> none
>>> of them were typed, so this looks like a completely greenfield  
>>> effort.
>>> p.s. I wasn't sure about 'flux capacitor.'  It sure sounds like an
>>> electronic component though. :-)
>>
>> Yeah, not my field either, so I don't want to fill in data so much as
>> know what kinds of things we should have schema for.  The types I
>> created so far in that base are ones that seemed obvious -- to me --
>> from the Wikipedia entries on electricity.  I also noticed that
>> robert's mobile phone base has schema for types of batteries, and
>> presumably this would be useful for all kinds of portable electronics
>> (mp3 players, cameras, etc) so it seemed reasonable to centralise.
>>
>> K.
>>
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