[Data-modeling] how much work done on modeling of personal names -- even for surname + given name?

[Ed Laurent]

I modeled a "Person name" and associated schema as a strawman for this
discussion. My thinking is that people could be typed with this poorly named
"Person name format"...
http://litcentral.freebase.com/type/schema/base/litcentral/person_name_format

...which has couple properties that are all linked to a "person full name"
CVT
http://litcentral.freebase.com/type/schema/base/litcentral/person_full_name

While I was originally leaning toward using machine readable string
properties, that wouldn't work for reciprocating a list of people with each
name in the UI. Maybe that's overkill but it would be pretty interesting and
could serve as another route for enticing people to enter data.

In retrospect I should have done this in sandbox, but it's already built in
Freebase proper.

Bash away or model something better!

-Ed


On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Christopher R. Maden <crism at metaweb.com>wrote:

> Raymond Yee wrote:
> > My question is: should I wait until there is some change made to
> > /people/person or should I kludge together my own type (that has the
> > inelegant but workable firstname, lastname, middlename properties),
> > apply that type to topics I care about, and then migrate to the new type
> > when it's implemented? What's the recommended practice here?
>
> Proof of concept is definitely encouraged.  Model it yourself, invite
> others to use it and comment.  See what works and what doesn’t, and that
> will definitely inform decisions made in the Freebase commons.
>
> ~Chris
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