Freebase: Discussion about jonathanwlowe

Dulwich Burial Ground: Merge with Dulwich College Burial Ground?

2009-12-06T22:31:07.0025Z

I think so. There was a couple of days when freebase was downloading huge amounts of info and things were not working properly, meaning that data I entered only registered a couple of days later, but that is all resolved now. Thanks.

Dulwich Burial Ground: Merge with Dulwich College Burial Ground?

2009-12-06T18:59:07.0016Z

Should this be merged with Dulwich College Burial Ground? It was created about the same time and doesn't appear to be being used.

united states: agree

2009-11-27T14:12:48.0000Z

I agree

Port of Montréal: Montreal Port Authority

2009-11-24T02:59:44.0014Z

Port of Call is already in the making. I'm beginning to gather properties from both US and International Maritime aspects, so it should be rather complete once I'm done. I am leaving out the overlap from Harbours (Engineering) since that is a slightly different base, but certainly linkable once that author puts more thought into his.

Regarding Port of Montreal , I agree that simply a Board of Directors doesn't equate to a Company, but those other properties are useful in regards to data and statistics of the business / organization that is Port of Montreal and others as I work through them. I'll have to perhaps move this conversation over to the Data Modeling email thread and ask there as I build up the use case for these Port Authorities.

Did you have some specific thoughts as to any of the Company properties that would NOT fit well for Ports ? I only saw the COMPANY type for the business commons as was going to use that.

All ears and toes, -THAD

Port of Montréal: Montreal Port Authority

2009-11-24T00:33:03.0014Z

Thank you for your thoroughness! It is great to see others that take this so seriously :)

I'm not sure if Freebase has a standard, clear definition of what a Company is. I'm not convinced that having a Board of Directors is enough, esp if the Board is solely comprised of state politicians/employees (they "report to" the government not shareholders, partners, etc). There is good reason these types of entities are called quasi-government (or quasi-corporate).

I'm trying to figure out if they deserve their own Type to show the quasi- bits. If we, Freebase as a whole, decide to stay with Companies, then at the very least they deserve a separate entry in Legal structure.

As for Ports - there should be a separate Port Type so it can capture port-specific data. If there isn't one already, you should create one!