[Data-modeling] Amateur sportspeople

[Faye Harris]

-1 on modeling amateur sports as professions on /people/person. 
Profession data is messy enough already, and "amateur" is after all the 
exact opposite of "professional".

+1 on the idea of using a general hobby property or type to cover 
everything one enjoys doing with one's free time. If adding a property 
on /people/person is frowned upon because of its high impact, how about 
a type like "Hobbyist", with a property for the hobby activity? A 
generic type like this gives us the added bonus of bypassing the 
tedious-but-otherwise-unavoidable debate of whether fishing, or poker is 
a sport.

-- Faye


Shawn Simister wrote:
> Why not just use the existing professions property on /people/person? 
> Michelle Obama could have the profession "Amateur Ping Pong" which 
> would be a specialization of the "Ping Pong" profession. Alternately, 
> you could add a hobbies property to person which could hold everything 
> from knitting to cave diving.
>
> Shawn
>
> Gavin Chan wrote:
>> This makes sense to me, but I would change the name to something a bit  
>> more specific like "recreational sportsperson". The term amateur can  
>> refer to any athlete that isn't paid to play, which includes serious  
>> college athletes and most olympians. On that note, we may want to have  
>> an "amateur athlete" for this group of athletes as well.
>>
>> On Mar 3, 2009, at 12:05 PM, Kirrily Robert wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> I'd like to create a type for "amateur sportsperson" which would
>>> initially have just one property: sports played (reciprocated from
>>> sport as "amateurs").
>>>
>>> This allows us to capture the fact that Michelle Obama plays ping
>>> pong, or that Britney Spears is an avid snowboarder, or whatever.
>>> (Examples may not be factual.)
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> K.
>>>
>>>
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>>> Freebase Community Director
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