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: | Iain Sproat (iain...@gmail.com) | |
| Date: | Jul 20, 2010 12:30:21 am | |
| List: | com.freebase.freebase-discuss | |
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:30 AM, glenn mcdonald <gmcd...@itasoftware.com> wrote:
I've just gone through and attempted to clean up the list of Countries in these
ways:
Good work. It always seems to be the first thing people check when judging the quality of data, so it's great to have it in order.
- The European Union is currently typed as Country. This isn't right, but it's
being used to assign it a currency, which seems useful. I left it alone. But
there should probably be some other way of modeling the idea of a transnational
currency.
The Euro is the currency of *some* countries within the EU, but not all. The Euro should be linked to each individual country of which it's the official currency, but not the region as a whole. I've removed the country type from the EU.
- I have removed the assertion that the United Kingdom was dissolved in 1922.
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland became the The United Kingdom of Great Britain and *Northern* Ireland on that date. Semantically, should we model this as different countries (as we have done between pre-1801 Kingdom of Great Britain and post-1801 UK), or as a name/territory change of a continued UK?
- Maybe there should be some type or property for designating official current
countries? Seems like a list of the countries of the world should be one of the
definitively simple things to get out of Freebase, and the above MQL is not
"definitively simple".
Perhaps a "UN recognized country" type? (using the United Nations as the defining body to avoid disputes about whether, e.g. Taiwan is recognised)
Iain
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