[Data-modeling] structure2: using the Project schema

[brendan]

I believe my original concern was never addressed: sticking the  
architect an extra ply out of reach of the freebase UI is a practical  
concern: I don't want a naive user to have to read a howto document to  
be able to assert who designed a building.  If we do go forward with  
the project focus thing, I will probably be forced to maintain the  
original architect property slot with some kind of syncing script.  I  
can feel the cringing as you all read that: perhaps this is motivation  
enough for metaweb to come up with a way of reconciling this pattern  
of problem.  Perhaps something sort of like sql view in mql where mql  
knows to look up that property value two plies out.

Brendan

On Feb 26, 2009, at 2:30 PM, Kirrily Robert wrote:

> On 26/02/2009, at 2:23 PM, Ed Laurent wrote:
>> The parent/child phylogeny is good for nesting projects (I also used
>> that approach) but I referred to "Project focus" in my fourth point,
>> not the project parent/child relationship. You used "Project focus"
>> and I used "Coordinated program" to describe the purpose of
>> projects. My interpretation was that these types were similar and I
>> was just providing an example of the properties that I had found
>> useful for describing them.
>
>
> I think there's some misunderstanding around my "Project focus"
> property.  It's the thing the project is about.  In your schema, I
> think that's "focal taxa".  For instance, a project to add a new wing
> to a library has a project focus of that library; a project to add
> bike lanes to Foo Street has its focus as Foo Street; the project to
> design and release Firefox 3 has Firefox 3 as its focus; a project to
> research and document the mating rituals of the New Guinea highlanders
> has the New Guinea highlanders as its focus; a project to find a
> vaccine for AIDS has AIDS vaccine as its focus.
>
> There might be several uncoordinated efforts with the same focus.  For
> instance, in the early modern period there were numerous attempts to
> discover the Northwest Passage by various governments and commercial
> entities; all of these could be modeled as projects with "Northwest
> Passage" as their focus, even though they weren't a co-ordinated
> program.
>
> K.
>
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> Kirrily Robert
> Freebase Community Director
> kirrily at metaweb.com
>
>
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