Freebase: Discussion about jeff

jeff: Employment Tenure...variation of?

2009-12-12T12:02:58.0030Z

I'd really rather not end up with two properties to determine who worked where when: that's just going to make the life of anybody searching for data that much harder. I know it's not perfect, but how about just setting "start end" and "end date" to the year in question?

jeff: Employment Tenure...variation of?

2009-12-12T00:00:05.0004Z

Well, here it is -- not so enlightening after all. The main issue, schema-wise, is that the same problem potentially exists for all types with a date range, and is related to the perennial "circa" problem with single dates.

jeff: Employment Tenure...variation of?

2009-12-11T23:37:39.0047Z

But the admins are always open to suggestions for improvements! The best place to make the suggestion is on the discussion board for the type in question.

On the larger question of known good dates, I'm pretty sure this has come up before. Let me see if I can find the old discussions, in case they shed any light on the issue.

jeff: Employment Tenure...variation of?

2009-12-11T22:47:29.0026Z

Spencer: I thought you were in Toronto? If so, I am in fact planning to be there in February and was going to talk to you about having a Freebase meetup while I'm there. It would probably be during the week starting Feb 8th.

jeff: Employment Tenure...variation of?

2009-12-11T22:38:25.0029Z

welcome to freebase dan~ the pink stuff comes from the schema documentation, which in the case of /people/person is locked with admin permissions so its only possible to improve documentation for types that you've created yourself... frustrating i know, because schema builders don't always properly document things. @workshop - lucky! those guys never seem to travel up to northern Ontario....

jeff: Employment Tenure...variation of?

2009-12-11T22:03:34.0009Z

...could also just name it During.

@ this point I am just getting my feet wet with FB (what's the preferred acronym that avoids confusion with Facebook?); Yesterday I attended the New York Freebase Workshop http://wiki.freebase.com/wiki/Freebase_Workshop_NYC_2009 where I met: Robert Cook, Jamie Taylor, and Will Moffat

Alas, I am currently doing my edits by hand and I am not a possessor of a large data-set with Freebase Potential...@ least not anything obvious, yet.

Here's a new question: Where can I suggest, or edit, the Help Text that displayed when you click on the (?) button...here's a link to a screengrab: http://aviary.com/artists/dme212/creations/freebase_helptext

--Dan

jeff: Employment Tenure...variation of?

2009-12-11T21:34:49.0034Z

i like this idea. we could just hide the property. (cc-ing jeff) do you have much data?

jeff: Employment Tenure...variation of?

2009-12-11T20:45:35.0031Z

Currently, Employment Tenure is defined by two dates that connote the start and end of the tenure. I would like to be able to add supporting data to what is an unknown tenure that would assist future contributors. I suggest that we add a field called KnownToBeInPositionDuring. In this manner I could add a year that I believe someone held a position, but was not necessarily the first, or last, year of their employment. Alternatively we could always resort to the handy-dandy multi-purpose field name that is suitable for just about every occasion: Notes.