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"...<br><a href="http://litcentral.freebase.com/type/schema/base/litcentral/person_name_format">http://litcentral.freebase.com/type/schema/base/litcentral/person_name_format</a><br>
<br>...which has couple properties that are all linked to a "person full name" CVT<br><a href="http://litcentral.freebase.com/type/schema/base/litcentral/person_full_name">http://litcentral.freebase.com/type/schema/base/litcentral/person_full_name</a><br>
<br>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. <br>
<br>In retrospect I should have done this in sandbox, but it's already built in Freebase proper.<br><br>Bash away or model something better!<br><br>-Ed<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Christopher R. Maden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crism@metaweb.com">crism@metaweb.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">Raymond Yee wrote:<br>
> My question is: should I wait until there is some change made to<br>
> /people/person or should I kludge together my own type (that has the<br>
> inelegant but workable firstname, lastname, middlename properties),<br>
> apply that type to topics I care about, and then migrate to the new type<br>
> when it's implemented? What's the recommended practice here?<br>
<br>
</div>Proof of concept is definitely encouraged. Model it yourself, invite<br>
others to use it and comment. See what works and what doesn’t, and that<br>
will definitely inform decisions made in the Freebase commons.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
~Chris<br>
--<br>
Christopher R. Maden<br>
Data Architect<br>
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