[Developers] Modeling question

[Daniel E. Renfer]

The products type, I assume, would have other information that you would 
need for your standard sold product.

UPC, weight/volume, possibly some cost data, etc.

A person wouldn't be considered a product because in most parts of the 
world, humans aren't sold in stores.

If not a product type, what type would you slip the product producer 
property into?

Ed Laurent wrote:
> The "Products producer" type with a "Products produced" property sounds 
> pretty good to me. The "Product" type a little less so. Would every 
> tangible topic (including people) need to be typed as a product? What 
> defines a product that separates it from other tangible topics? I agree 
> that this kind of type could be very useful and there should be 
> reciprocation between product and producer but I'm not excited about 
> this approach to doing it.
> 
> -Ed
> 
> P.S. This conversation is probably more relevant to the Data Modeling 
> list so I'm cc'ing it.
> 
> 
> On Jan 6, 2008 10:05 PM, Daniel E. Renfer < duck at kronkltd.net 
> <mailto:duck at kronkltd.net>> wrote:
> 
>     It would probably make sense to have some sort of "products producer"
>     co-type. The producers would have a "products produced" link to the
>     "producer" field of the corresponding "product" type.
> 
>     Not every company produces products, and there are some products that
>     are produced by groups other than companies.
> 
>     Other than that, it sounds like great information to track.
> 
>     Kavitha Srinivas wrote:
>      > For companies, is there any interest in linking companies to their
>      > major products (e.g., Pfizer to its key pharma products) as listed in
>      > Wikipedia?  I don't mind adding it, but there is no appropriate slot
>      > to add it.
>      > Key products seems to be important information for a company.
>      > Thanks!
>      > Kavitha
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