Field Of Study

Fantasy: Merge fantasy and fantasy literature?

2008-10-07T18:30:56.0012Z

I'd be in favour of merging.

Fantasy: Merge fantasy and fantasy literature?

2008-10-07T00:48:18.0031Z

Do we need a separate genre for each medium?

That's what the separation of fantasy and fantasy literature suggests. If so, we need to be clearer about which is which, as right now books seem to be tagged with one or the other somewhat arbitrarily.

I'm not completely convinced that merging is necessary, but some form of cleanup or disambiguation appears to be.

Field Of Study: Broader / narrower?

2008-09-02T22:04:48.0000Z

That seems pretty reasonable to me, so I added the two properties to the Field of Study type.

Education: Broader / narrower?

2008-09-02T22:04:48.0000Z

That seems pretty reasonable to me, so I added the two properties to the Field of Study type.

Education: Feild of study

2008-09-02T19:53:19.0000Z

Thank you, you're right that does seem to cover it. I'm still getting used to the way that co-typeing works (i.e., that something can be both a feild of study type and a book subject type).

Education: Feild of study

2008-09-02T17:40:31.0012Z

All books have a subject property, which seems like it should be sufficient. (The property is actually on the type "written work", but all books should have that type as a co-type.)

Ethics: Data on ethics cases / thought experiements

2008-09-02T01:12:53.0018Z

The contemporary ethics literature is full of thought experiments that are used to support various moral claims. As far as I know there is no database or index which catalogues these ethics cases and the uses to which they are put. It would be a big help to philosophy students and moral theorists to have this kind of a data available in a powerfully searchable format.

Education: Feild of study

2008-09-02T00:16:42.0019Z

Academic books should have a property linking them to a feild of study, e.g., philosophy, psychology, etc.

Field Of Study: Broader / narrower?

2008-09-02T00:09:20.0005Z

Just posting this to crosspost this disscussion.

Education: Broader / narrower?

2008-09-02T00:09:20.0005Z

Just posting this to crosspost this disscussion.

Field Of Study: Broader / narrower?

2008-09-02T00:06:29.0012Z

I agree. Currently, for example, philosophy, ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics are all simply "feilds of study". That's fine as far as it goes, but within the philosophy feild of study type we should be able to specify that ethics, epistemolgoy and metaphysics are subdisciplines. I'm not sure what a good name for the reciprocal property of "super-discipline" would be. Perhaps something like "is a subdiscipline of"

Education: Broader / narrower?

2008-09-02T00:06:29.0012Z

International Affairs: Split

2008-07-24T22:49:16.0010Z

The field of study should be split from the journal.

Yale University: yale college and yale university?

2008-07-24T14:54:09.0000Z

Wikipedia tends to classify by the broadest institution, so there are a lot of actors associated with Yale University instead of the drama school. I think it's fine that we start with the lower-precision classification and as data becomes available, replace it with the more specific.

Literature: Merge with the other "Literature" instance

2008-06-10T09:29:54.0012Z

Duplicate of Literature. Merge please.

Transport: Types of Transport

2008-06-04T02:25:26.0012Z

I suggest that types be added corresponding to the 'Aspects' of transport in the article, for example 'Transport Vehicle' which would include cars & bikes. 'Transport Infrastructure' would be a better name for the current 'Transportation' which is now all about roadways etc.

Hope this makes sense - I'm new here.

Yale University: yale college and yale university?

2008-03-27T22:13:29.0017Z

Or, I suppose you could argue that everyone should be linked to the University itself, but I think that's less useful in the long run (if I'm interested in directors who went to the Yale School of Drama, I'd rather query that than to have to filter Yale Univ. grads by degree [MFA] and field of study [directing, drama, acting, etc.]).

Yale University: yale college and yale university?

2008-03-27T22:10:34.0022Z

It does complicate queries, it's true. Ideally everyone would be linked to the school they graduated from. That said, it's useful to be able to say that someone graduated from Yale University, even if you don't know which school they attended.

Yale University: yale college and yale university?

2008-03-27T21:26:57.0012Z

This is the case, although it complicates queries. Also, many alumni are linked to the university even though they attended Yale College.

Software Engineering: Why delete?

2008-03-26T14:59:39.0012Z

Unsure of why this is marked for delete, but if someone has a reason, please post it.

Geographic Information System: GIS as profession?

2008-03-26T14:01:14.0000Z

I agree.

Maybe it could renamed to something like 'profession area'

Yale University: yale college and yale university?

2008-02-14T23:16:00.0007Z

As near as I can tell, Yale College is the undergraduate college of Yale University, and should therefore be made a constituent school of Yale, along with Yale Law School, Yale School of Drama, etc., which I've now done.

Yale University: yale college and yale university?

2008-02-14T21:56:01.0012Z

shouldn't these two be merged?

-chris

Geographic Information System: GIS as profession?

2007-12-14T20:12:20.0012Z

Can a profession really be a system? Wouldn't GIS analyst and GIS programmer and GIS developer be better profession names?

Field Of Study: Broader / narrower?

2007-05-19T02:24:48.0021Z

Perhaps a "Broader field of study" and "Narrower fields of study" or "Subdisciplines" property would be useful in organizing these? (i.e. Business Administration is a subdiscipline of Business)

Education: Broader / narrower?

2007-05-19T02:24:48.0021Z

Perhaps a "Broader field of study" and "Narrower fields of study" or "Subdisciplines" property would be useful in organizing these? (i.e. Business Administration is a subdiscipline of Business)