[Developers] Modeling question

[Ed Laurent]

We hijacked this thread over to the data modelers list last night. There
were a couple different strings so it's difficult to paste them all here but
they are available in the archives:
http://lists.freebase.com/pipermail/data-modeling/

-Ed


On Jan 7, 2008 9:38 AM, Kavitha Srinivas <ksrinivs at gmail.com> wrote:

> I looked at the UPC database site some more, and (unfortunately) it
> doesn't seem to have a lot of the manufacturer data filled in.  I went to
> GS1 US site, but it didn't look like that data was available there either?
> Does anyone know where this information might be available under the
> Creative Commons license?  Thanks!
> Kavitha
>
> On Jan 6, 2008, at 10:26 PM, Shawn Simister wrote:
>
> There is a lot of Creative Commons data available about the relationships
> between products and manufacturers available from the UPC Database<http://www.upcdatabase.com/downloads/>.
> It could take a while to merge all that data but I think it could be quite
> useful.
>
> Shawn
>
> Daniel E. Renfer 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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