Profession

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.

Umpire: Film character and fictional character should be split off

2008-07-23T15:25:33.0012Z

These refer to a specific instance of "Umpire" as a character in a film and should be moved to a distinct topic.

Web designer: Mistake!

2008-07-08T01:28:34.0005Z

Too bad there's no way to unflag a topic...

Surveyor: split

2008-07-01T18:48:03.0012Z

I think this should be split into surveyor, profession, and surveying, field of study.

yoyobichi: What is a Yoyobichi

2008-06-30T16:06:22.0005Z

And why is Milla Jovovich one?

Director: WP disambiguation, heavily used

2008-06-26T09:07:20.0000Z

http://freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000f17df8 is also widely misused.

Writer: Types of writers

2008-06-17T00:53:17.0007Z

I guess a "genres written" property on the Author type could be useful for some users but is maybe more appropriate on a less general author type. For example, do scholarly articles have a genre other than scholarly article? If not, why do all users entering data into the Author type need to consider "genres written" add possibly add redundant/inconsistent data? Similar to subject, it seems to me like this information would be best pulled from written work or a special case co-type of written work rather than the author.

Writer: Types of writers

2008-06-16T23:50:49.0007Z

I think that regardless of whether there's a property on "author" for "genres" (I'm tending to agree that "subjects" is going to be less useful), people may still fill in "profession" with values like "spy fiction writer", and they should be allowed to do so (not that anybody could prevent them if they wanted to). So the question for me is not "should a 'genres' property on the Author type replace this use of the 'profession' property", which I think is what the original post suggests, but "is a 'genres' property on the Author type useful in and of itself?"

Writer: Types of writers

2008-06-16T18:57:45.0007Z

IMO "Spy fiction writer" depends on the definition employed by the user. Why should that defintion be set by a schema, unless a particular user or group of users has a specific need? In that case, a spy_fiction_writer schema sounds appropriate to me.

I agree about the two properties: subject and genre. One is about content the other is about style.

"Subjects written about" should probably be pulled from the written works, not the writer.

Writer: Types of writers

2008-06-16T18:41:14.0007Z

This sounds like two properties to me -- one for subject, and one for genre. I.e., John le Carre doesn't particularly write about spy fiction (he has, but only in short subjects) so much as he writes in the genre of spy fiction. Someone who's published books about, say, Cold War thrillers or the James Bond franchise, however, could be said to write about spy fiction. The question I have is: how valuable is this proposed property? It would be something of a denormalization of the genre/subject properties of the author's written works. I.e., there would be two ways to get a list of "spy fiction writers" -- from the proposed "genres" property on the Author type, and from the "genre" property on every work the author has written (and probably from the professions property as well, since somebody apparently thinks that's a useful way to describe this information as well). All of these would probably generate different results.

But then, I could see an argument that someone who's only written one spy novel, but a bunch of novels in other genres, wouldn't necessarily be considered a "spy fiction writer", any more than someone might consider Margaret Atwood to be a children's author, even though she's published at least one children's book.

Just throwing a bunch of thoughts out there, and seeing if anything sticks....

Search Engine Optimization: Hijacking the Database

2008-06-16T17:19:54.0005Z

X-Client-IP: 97.91.113.38

Let's not hijack freebase for seo purposes UTAH! No need to link your website in the description... just add it to the weblinks section. Freebase should look at banning the user who added their link to the description. Or perhaps you should consider not allowing html to b

Writer: Types of writers

2008-06-15T06:30:46.0007Z

agree

Teacher: Courses taught?

2008-06-11T21:16:54.0015Z

Has anyone modeled a "Courses taught" or similar type? If not, how do you think it should be modeled? Properties could include Person(s), Course name, Website, Subject, Grade level, and Educational institution. Others?

On a separate topic, why are "Teacher" and "Professor" separated as subsets of "Educator"?

Programmer: Merge with Programmer

2008-04-10T02:15:40.0007Z

Hi jw,

Looks like you figured it out. Thanks for marking this topic for merge.

Programmer: Merge with Programmer

2008-04-09T21:00:12.0005Z

This should probably be merged with the topic 'Programmer', if that's possible. (I don't know how to do that, or whether that's possible at all.)

Director: WP disambiguation, heavily used

2008-03-19T14:48:59.0005Z

This topic derives from a Wikipedia disambiguation page and should not have been loaded. However, it is now heavily used, and so should be split into different topics, and possibly merged with existing ones, before its Wikipedia identity is destroyed.

Profession: Imagineer

2007-08-23T17:59:33.0012Z

An Imagineer is one that can crystalize and bring to reality your ideas, concepts, even dreams. In today's world of high technology and visual communication an Imagineer can be found working in the communications field, especially in the various fields of the Internet and Intranet. An Imagineer is more than the systems analyst or techno-geek, he or she is one that listens to ideas and concepts and translates them into more than today's realities, but tomorrow's possibilities. You may find an Imagineer is a hybrid, a cross between a futurist and practitioner or a dreamer and realist. Like no other time in history, today's world offers the most fertile proving grounds for the Imagineer in communications, engineering, medicine as well as entertainment.

Writer: Types of writers

2007-06-15T20:28:39.0011Z

Why have separate types for professions like "Spy fiction writer" and "Science writer" (which have no interesting properties anyway). Wouldn't a "Subjects written about" property be better?