[Data-modeling] Professions and fields

[Robert Cook]

OK.  I just made these schema changes on freebase.com

R

On Mar 23, 2009, at 12:44 PM, Kirrily Robert wrote:

> +1
>
> K.
>
> On Mar 21, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Jeff Fry 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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