[Developers] Moving types out of the /common domain

[Jeff Prucher]

We finally migrated the types out of the /common domain, but differently
(and later!) than in the original plan.  The final resting places for the
types formerly in /common are as follows:

Moved to a new domain, /award:
award 
award_winning_work 
award-winner 
award_presenting_organization 
award_nominee 
award_nominated_work 
award_nomination 
award_honor 

Moved to /media_common:
citation

Moved to /time
weekday

Deleted outright:
collection
review

Remaining in /common:
Topic
Document
Image
interpersonal relationship*
Required attribution/authorship info for licenses
Licensed Object
License
Webpage
Legal Entity
Phone Number

*Note that "interpersonal relationship" is still slated for deletion.

Jeff Prucher
Type Librarian & Ontologist
Metaweb, Inc.

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	From: developers-bounces at freebase.com
[mailto:developers-bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Prucher
	Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 4:11 PM
	To: developers at freebase.com
	Subject: [Developers] Moving types out of the /common domain
	
	

	The /common domain currently contains types that serve two different
purposes, which is starting to become a problem. The two kinds of types are
those, such as /common/topic, that are important to the workings of Freebase
itself, and those, such as /common/phone_number, that are used by a variety
of types in several domains but which are not necessary to the functioning
of Freebase.  We would like to create a new domain (/shared) for the second
kind of types (the ones that are merely used across domains) to make it
easier to manage the types that are crucial to the system.

	Moving types around like this is something that we are still doing
in Alpha (though as little as possible), and we are working on ways to make
addresses stable.  We will make the following changes on Monday, July 9, if
we don't hear any objections.

	The types currently in /common that will be moved to /shared are: 
	award 
	award_winning_work 
	award-winner 
	award_presenting_organization 
	award_nominee 
	award_nominated_work 
	award_nomination 
	award_honor 
	citation 
	collection 
	legal_entity 
	phone_number 
	review 
	weekday 

	The types that will remain in /common are: 
	topic 
	document 
	image 
	attribution_info 
	licensed_object 
	license 
	webpage 

	Additionally, /common/interpersonal_relationship will be deleted
entirely. 

	Jeff Prucher 
	Type Librarian & Ontologist 
	Metaweb, Inc.