[Data-modeling] Professions and fields

[Ed Laurent]

It's a big leap forward. I like it so far.

Here's the link to the discussion we had about this type last month:
http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000ab696d2

-Ed


On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Jeff Fry <jfry at metaweb.com> wrote:

> Until recently, many topics were cotyped as both a profession and an
> industry. Folks have been working to split apart professions (e.g.
> Engineer) from fields (e.g. Engineering). This is a good thing, but as
> it stands we've got no link between the two topics.
>
> After discussing this, Robert and I mocked up a new Professional Field
> type, and a new property on Profession, "Part of professional field". We
> started considering linking this field to Industry but realized that
> Profressional Field was more broadly applicable.
>
> Examples:
> http://www.sandbox-freebase.com/view/en/physicist
> http://www.sandbox-freebase.com/view/en/broadcaster
> http://www.sandbox-freebase.com/view/en/priest
> http://www.sandbox-freebase.com/view/en/executioner
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Jeff
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