As I was looking through the categories, it came to me that perhaps money is too broad for the types beneath. Money has an overarching quality that is not expressed in the types. Money is more like history. It is a property of or involved in more topics than we'd like to admit.
In contribution to the community,
PMM
Renaming the money category to Commerce
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Hey, PMM. Thanks for the suggestion.
On the Domains & Types page, "Money" is just a label for the collection of domains listed under it. That is, the things labeled as domain categories (including money) aren't part of the data structure per se. Instead, they're navigational elements to help people find related data. So toward that end, we're going for broad labels.
I'd say that "Commerce" is too narrow for the domains and types collected there, but it's certainly possible that another term would better help people find the data.
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Speaking of changing it to commerce
what about a classified section? Or have I just missed it?
If there isn't one, there should be.
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What would go in a classified section? Freebase is not really intended for ephemeral data such as classified ads themselves; we would quickly be full of obsolete listings. We could certainly model information about classified ads, but I am not sure what that would entail.
If you are thinking we should actually have classified ads—well, I’m not one of the Metaweb business people, but I can’t imagine that competing with Craigslist is something that would make our investors happy. (-: And remember that nothing in Freebase is ever deleted—not really an ideal tool for classified ads.
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