Film subject

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.

Education: Broader / narrower?

2008-09-02T00:09:20.0005Z

Just posting this to crosspost this disscussion.

Education: 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"

William Shakespeare: Shakespeare is not a Location, Film Character, or TV Character!

2007-11-12T20:31:05.0012Z

Hi, I've removed the Location type from this topic and I see that Gordon has done the same with various fictional character types that were added to Shakespeare. At the risk of sounding silly, may I just say that people are never Locations. Real people, alive or deceased, should not be typed Film Character, TV Character or any other fictional character types.

The correct way to model a "Shakespeare" character in a film or TV show is to create a Fictional Character with the same name, link it to the fictional work that applies, then indicate the name of the real person based on whom the character was designed in the "Based on" property of Fictional Character. The real Bard himself (along with other people who exist or existed), on the other hand, should be typed Person Or Being in Fiction instead.

Future history: Made a mistake in trusting the autocomplete results

2007-11-07T18:10:56.0000Z

Ah... right -- this is a different sense of "future history" than I was thinking of (I was thinking of the Heinlein sense -- a series of books/stories that, taken together, constitute an exploration of the future development of civilization). But books that try to extrapolate future developments could reasonably be said to be about a future history. I haven't read The Prince, so you're probably right about it.

Future history: Made a mistake in trusting the autocomplete results

2007-11-07T07:41:00.0007Z

Maybe 'The Prince' is as you say not by itself a great example of a Future History, it could be, I'll need to dig out my copy and re-read it. Here's a classic example though: The Shape of Things to Come

Future history: Made a mistake in trusting the autocomplete results

2007-11-07T07:30:57.0007Z

Hmm, shall we have a genre's property for a series then?

Future history: Made a mistake in trusting the autocomplete results

2007-11-07T01:53:29.0007Z

I'm not sure that "future history" is really a subject -- unless the book is about future histories, of course. I suppose it's a sort of a genre (but a weird one in that, conceptually, anyway, it describes a series rather than a single book).

Future history: Book of the New Sun is neither a book nor a future history

2007-11-07T00:22:39.0012Z

I'm removing "The Book of the New Sun" from the "books in this genre" property -- it's not actually a book (it's a book series), and it's not really a future history unless we count all books set in the future as future histories.
A future history generally shows the development of a civilization over a long period of time, and the events in The Book of the New Sun, while set in the very far future, take place over a comparatively short period of time.

Future history: Made a mistake in trusting the autocomplete results

2007-11-06T23:48:52.0012Z

So I thought this topic didn't exist already...Wish we could have a button to limit autocomplete results to title-only like library systems do.

Please merge.

Academy Awards: merge with academy_of_motion_picture_arts_and_sciences

2007-09-14T06:39:08.0000Z

Matt, the best way to request a merge is to use the drop-down menu next to the topic’s name. However, in this case, the Academy is the awarding organization, while this (the Academy Awards) is the awards event itself, so I think a merge is inappropriate. I have moved the two awards associated with this topic over to the Academy itself, and removed the awarding-organization type from this one. Thanks for catching this.

Academy Awards: merge with academy_of_motion_picture_arts_and_sciences

2007-09-14T05:18:13.0012Z

topic says it all...
http://www.freebase.com/view/academy_of_motion_picture_arts_and_sciences
is the same organization as this.

same "web link", even! (oscars.org)

Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction: Question about types.

2007-08-29T00:21:58.0007Z

Salut! I can't tell you why these genre types were created (since I didn't create any of them) but I see benefits having them.

First, genres or themes specific to a domain are not only useful for labeling, but are themselves useful data as well. For example, with a Film Genre type, finding out film genres is simple. This seems a no-brainer, but consider this: Without this specific type, I could possibly get the same data by cross-referencing all topics in Media Genre with genre information listed on all films, but that's a cumbersome process.

Certain genres can be applied to single or multiple domains: thriller is both a Film Genre and a Literary Genre (among other things), but as far as I know Speedrock is a Music Genre only. What genre categorization is cross-domain and what is domain-specific is important metadata that's captured by having multiple genre types, instead of a single umbrella Media Genre.

In addition, I also want to point out from a data modeling perspective that having specific genre types makes the creation of reverse properties easier. For example, knowing that "Mystery" is a literary genre allows us to add properties that ask: What books belong to this genre? But if all you know is that it's a media genre, then you can only ask vague questions like: What works of media (film, TV, book, music, etc.) belong to this genre?

Well, that's my personal take, anyway. One thing that doesn't quite belong on your list of genres is Book Subject. The correct genre type for that is Literary Genre -- to say a book is about mystery is not the same to say it is a mystery novel. It seems to be a point of confusion. If you come across incorrectly typed topics, feel free to correct them.

Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction: Question about types.

2007-08-25T08:33:26.0005Z

Here, we see that Apo and post-apo fiction has many types:
* Book Subject (Publishing),
* Computer Game Genre (Computer games),
* Film genre (Film),
* Media genre (Media Common)

I would like to know why Book, Computer and Film -I added this one- are listed despite the fact that Media genre (Media common) covers all of them.

Dance: Dance related types missing!

2007-08-08T02:09:50.0007Z

i removed the musical genre type to help prevent people from continuing to use it as such in autocomplete. i also marked it as split, but realized it should probably be merged with the musical genre type as well... i don't even know how to handle such a complicated case with our marking system. but its great to get more use cases for that. thanks for pointing this out!

Dance: Dance related types missing!

2007-08-06T19:21:10.0007Z

Agreed, this topic seems mis-typed to me. The topic for dance music as a musical genre is here: http://www.freebase.com/api/metaweb/view?id=%239202a8c04000641f8000000000e770b6

Take a look at the Theater domain that can be applied to theatrical dances and dancers. There's also the Education domain where you can add dance schools to the type Institution. The type Field of Study probably has dance listed already, but if not, go head and add it.

If you'd like to model additional dance-specific data, feel free to experiment in your private domain, preferably on sandbox.metaweb.com first. Have fun!

Dance: Dance related types missing!

2007-08-06T10:33:05.0004Z

To my understanding dance is not a musical genre
(though in the majority of the cases linked to a musical stimula, you can have dance without music).

It seems that there is a total absence of dance related types (dance types, dance schools, etc.)

Furthermore, dance related topics are probably being added in the musical genre, schools, places, etc. at this stage,
which I imagine must make it more difficult later on to restore correct categorisation...

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)

Psychology: Links point to Wikipedia

2007-04-26T23:23:06.0012Z

The links in the article currently point to Wikipedia. I don't have the time at the moment to edit these though. Maybe someone else can edit them...

Film subject: Added field

2007-04-22T23:29:15.0012Z

Could we add a field for "movies about this subject" like Book Subject's got?