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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">The /common domain currently contains types that serve two different purposes, which is starting to become a problem. The two kinds of types are those, such as /common/topic, that are important to the workings of Freebase itself, and those, such as /common/phone_number, that are used by a variety of types in several domains but which are not necessary to the functioning of Freebase. We would like to create a new domain (/shared) for the second kind of types (the ones that are merely used across domains) to make it easier to manage the types that are crucial to the system.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Moving types around like this is something that we are still doing in Alpha (though as little as possible), and we are working on ways to make addresses stable. We will make the following changes on Monday, July 9, if we don't hear any objections.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">The types currently in /common that will be moved to /shared are:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">award</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">award_winning_work</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">award-winner</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">award_presenting_organization</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">award_nominee</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">award_nominated_work</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">award_nomination</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">award_honor</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">citation</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">collection</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">legal_entity</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">phone_number</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">review</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">weekday</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">The types that will remain in /common are:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">topic</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">document</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">image</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">attribution_info</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">licensed_object</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">license</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">webpage</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Additionally, /common/interpersonal_relationship will be deleted entirely.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Jeff Prucher</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Type Librarian & Ontologist</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Metaweb, Inc.</FONT>
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