[Developers] Adding a webpage to a topic.

[Nick Thompson]

The use of a compound value type in this case is for UI display
purposes.  I agree that it's not a very useful model otherwise.

There's some discussion about this at
   http://www.freebase.com/discuss/threads/common/webpage

     nick

Arthur van Hoff wrote:
> I understand, but that seems counter intuitive in the context of 
> Freebase. Shouldn’t each webpage be described by a single unambiguous 
> instance that can have properties such as author, copyright, title, etc? 
> The URL could be a key to find this object.
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> If /common/topic/webpage is simply a URI, then why not make it a value 
> type like /type/uri? The use of a compound value confused me in this case.
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> *From:* developers-bounces at freebase.com 
> [mailto:developers-bounces at freebase.com] *On Behalf Of *John Giannandrea
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 12, 2008 10:50 AM
> *To:* For discussions about MQL,Freebase API and apps built on Freebase
> *Subject:* Re: [Developers] Adding a webpage to a topic.
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> Arthur van Hoff wrote:
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>     Ok, that seems inefficient, but I’m happy to do that…
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> compound values are not intended to be shared because if you edit topic 
> A's webpage you didnt mean to edit topic B's at the same time.
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> -jg
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