23 messages in com.freebase.freebase-discussRe: [Freebase-discuss] countries, adm...| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| glenn mcdonald | Jul 19, 2010 4:30 pm | |
| Jason Douglas | Jul 19, 2010 5:55 pm | |
| glenn mcdonald | Jul 19, 2010 8:06 pm | |
| Tom Morris | Jul 19, 2010 9:52 pm | |
| Iain Sproat | Jul 20, 2010 12:30 am | |
| Kirrily Robert | Jul 20, 2010 12:44 am | |
| Tom Morris | Jul 20, 2010 12:51 am | |
| glenn mcdonald | Jul 20, 2010 4:53 am | |
| Tom Morris | Jul 20, 2010 5:34 am | |
| Philip Kendall | Jul 20, 2010 5:37 am | |
| Christopher R. Maden | Jul 20, 2010 5:37 am | |
| Iain Sproat | Jul 20, 2010 5:57 am | |
| glenn mcdonald | Jul 20, 2010 6:53 am | |
| Philip Kendall | Jul 20, 2010 7:01 am | |
| Paul Houle | Jul 20, 2010 7:34 am | |
| glenn mcdonald | Jul 20, 2010 7:56 am | |
| Luke Schubert | Jul 20, 2010 7:58 am | |
| Shailesh Kochhar | Jul 21, 2010 12:08 am | |
| Paul Houle | Jul 21, 2010 8:03 am | |
| Tom Morris | Jul 21, 2010 8:26 am | |
| evening0star | Jul 21, 2010 9:07 am | |
| Thad Guidry | Jul 21, 2010 10:15 am | |
| evening0star | Jul 21, 2010 10:30 am |
| Subject: | Re: [Freebase-discuss] countries, administrative divisions... | |
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| From: | Shailesh Kochhar (koch...@metaweb.com) | |
| Date: | Jul 21, 2010 12:08:03 am | |
| List: | com.freebase.freebase-discuss | |
On 07/20/2010 05:38 AM, Christopher R. Maden wrote:
Kirrily Robert wrote:
On 20/07/2010, at 12:30 AM, Iain Sproat wrote:
Perhaps a "UN recognized country" type? (using the United Nations as the defining body to avoid disputes about whether, e.g. Taiwan is recognised)
I feel like that type, documented to be "currently recognised only", would be a (rare!) useful bucket type.
I like the idea, too.
Consider also, instead of or in addition to that, a property on Country for recognized-by; it could be the reciprocal of recognizes (also on Country, or on a new type like Diplomatic Entity), or could use a CVT for dates of recognition.
For example, the US didn’t recognize PR China until the 1970s; the US recognizes RO China, but PR China does not; the US recognized Bosnia-Herzegovina before Serbia did.
Applying this property to the country type strikes me as a rabbit-hole. Would we
go through and fill out every country that recognized PRC and the dates for when
that happened? What about other country pairs? I'd conjecture that the
information might not even be available. For instance, when did Burkina Faso
recognize the United States as a country; and is that information pertinent in
any way? It might be more pragmatic to create a type that applies only to
countries whose recognition is a contentious subject (or was at some point in
time).
- Shailesh
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