[Developers] Refactoring religious leaders

Iain Sproat iainsproat at gmail.com
Tue Jun 30 09:12:29 UTC 2009


The type got moved from my domain to a base - it's now at
http://www.freebase.com/type/schema/base/religiousjurisdiction/religious_leadership_title<http://www.freebase.com/type/schema/base/religiousjurisdiction/religious_leadership_title?domain=/base/religiousjurisdiction>

Iain

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 3:09 AM, Jeff Prucher <jeff at metaweb.com> wrote:

> The type /religion/religious_leadership_role contains something of a
> mishmash of instances. On the one hand, it contains very general roles
> (e.g.
> bishop, imam, chaplain, etc.); on the other hand, it contains specific
> instances of some of these roles (e.g. Bishop of Norwich, Archbishop of
> Canterbury, etc.). These are really not the same type of things. To address
> this, we'd like to add a type, Religious Leadership Title (currently in
> sprocketonline's base here:
> <
> http://www.freebase.com/type/schema/base/religiousjurisdiction/religious_le
> adership_title>. So the "Role" type would now hold only the general
> instances (bishop), and link to specific "Title" instances of this role
> (Bishop of Norwich).  This would be very straightforward, except that, in
> order to do this right, we need to change the expected type of one of the
> properties ("role") on the "Religious Organization Leadership" type
> (/religion/religious_organization_leadership).
>
> Are there developers that have queries that would break if I update the
> expected type of this property?
>
>
> Jeff Prucher
> Type Librarian & Ontologist
> Metaweb Technologies, Inc.
>
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