[Data-modeling] Amateur sportspeople

[Kirrily Robert]

On 03/03/2009, at 4:14 PM, Faye Harris wrote:

> -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".

Agreed.  Vehemently in fact.

> +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.


I have a base called "Hobbies and Interests" which already has exactly  
this.  But it does mean co-typing any sport that has amateur  
participants as a hobby.  I don't see any real problem with that,  
though it's a little odd to say that an olympic athlete's "hobby" is  
swimming, or whatever.

K.

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