Freebase: Discussion about dsinclair

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2009-11-12T17:34:36.0020Z

This was a topic I created to match a schema, but is a conflation of a dome and a roof.

I've updated the schema, so I don't think there is a reason for this topic anymore.

dsinclair: Industry for C Lorenz Company

2009-11-09T09:11:52.0131Z

I didn't get to finish this, and in German maybe the "and company" is something else. They produced landing equipment for planes which was adopted by most airports during the 30's, and are somehow tied into developing equipment similar to that used in the "Enigma Code" . They were later taken over by ITT, the telecomunications giant. Maybe I can find some more, but what exists on the "net" is in German (very good but my German isn't) .

dsinclair: Industry for C Lorenz Company

2009-11-09T01:46:19.0019Z

Hi dsinclair. Navigational Transit isn't a "real" industry, and I'm not sure how to map it to an NAICS code.

What did C Lorenz Company do? Did they manufacture? Or sell? Or provide a service? That would be the first step in determining the Industry. Then doing some searches on the NAICS page you can narrow down the appropriate industry, making sure that the code you choose matches the type of service (manufacturing, service, etc).

Doing this, are you able to find a comparable Industry (which is based on an NAICS-type structure)?

Thanks

BT Tower: BT Tower Restaurant

2009-11-03T09:33:57.0013Z

Seems like the "Top of the Tower" (rotating) restaurant is about to reopen after almost 30 years of closure. Opened in about 1965, closed in 1980, may reopen 2009 or 2010

General Formal Ontology: Infontology and the Semantic Web

2009-10-30T21:56:29.0013Z

A classical definition of ontology - as ontogeny

http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000054d5444

Information Technology is generally catagorized as a type of Complex Adaptive System; which of course - it is! This quotation - "our ability to create information far exceeds our ability to manage it"; is an important aspect of this understanding.

http://web2point5.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/semantic-embed-part-2/

The enigma of 'commutative expressivity' and its relationship to complex reasoning makes works such a this one:

http://book.ontologymatching.org/

important to consider - the question of structured modeling is also important to consider in the use of information systems ontologies.

dsinclair: Renamed from cause to event

2009-10-29T22:49:18.0013Z

Damn posting error bug!

dsinclair: Renamed from cause to event

2009-10-29T22:48:17.0013Z

How apropos, the Bay Bridge in SF failed (in a minor way - just steel dropping 100ft onto cars) on Tuesday and the NY Times references the Tacoma Narrows Bridge

http://bayarea.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/harmonic-motion/ http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4335323.html http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2009/10/29/MNLR1AC568.DTL&o=1

dsinclair: Renamed from cause to event

2009-10-29T22:48:06.0013Z

How apropos, the Bay Bridge in SF failed (in a minor way - just steel dropping 100ft onto cars) on Tuesday and the NY Times references the Tacoma Narrows Bridge

dsinclair: Subsidiary or Resort?

2009-10-29T09:57:56.0005Z

I knew this would raise some questions. I have a Center Parcs brochure from 2000 and was sent to "visit" one of them at the time. Then it was just Center Parcs Ltd (that's who I paid) but has since become a PLC. At that time it seemed it was one company owning the 3 or 4 "resorts" in UK. The resorts in Europe may well be one company operating in the various countries, but as they presumably own their resorts (and are thus not "hotel operators" only), I assume that there must be a series of subsidiary companies under one European "Center Parcs" umbrella. I assume that even in the late 1990's each EC country required a national company to own land and businesses. I think most of them still do now. Thus on filling in the items yesterday I assumed that they would all be separate companies by now, one for each resort. Maybe a financial return can confirm how they are in fact organized. Thanks.

dsinclair: Subsidiary or Resort?

2009-10-29T01:03:30.0020Z

I'm not sure that the villages of Center Parcs are actual subsidiaries, but instead resorts (which I think are like hotels in that there is a hotel and then a hotel owner). Can you please let me know where you got the information that the resorts are subsidiaries?

In addition, it looks like Center Parcs UK and Center Parcs Europe (all non-UK) are not legally related to each other. I tried to clean it up so that the Belgium, Germany, Holland and France are under Center Parcs Europe, and removed them from Center Parcs.

In addition, I think the main Center Parcs record is for the overall brand and not for a specific company, based on the wikipedia article. Can you please confirm?