[Developers] Ontological forum?

[Kirrily Robert]

Dammit, I meant to send this to the list.

On 9/9/07, Kirrily Robert <skud at infotrope.net> wrote:
> On 9/9/07, Shawn Simister <narphorium at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  I agree that the discussion pages really limit the range and the audience
> > of such discussions but I haven't found anything else yet that covers those
> > sorts of topics.
> >  I suppose a mailing list for information architects and domain specialist
> > would be useful.
>
> Yes please!
>
> Meanwhile, I'll ask my question here.  I found myself wondering about
> abbreviations this evening.  Australian states (for which I have
> created a user type,
> http://www.freebase.com/view/filter/user/skud/default_domain/australian_state)
> have an official abbreviated form of their name.  For instance,
> Victoria is VIC and New South Wales is NSW.  Currently these are just
> listed in the "Also known as" field, but it seems to me that it would
> also be useful to have a type "Abbreviation" in its own right.  Where
> one abbreviation can mean multiple things, it could link to all those
> terms.  But I'm sure there are complications to this that I haven't
> foreseen, so I wanted to open up discussion on it.
>
> K.
>
> --
> Kirrily Robert
> skud at infotrope.net
> http://infotrope.net
>


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