[wdmmg-dev] Proposed model overhaul

Wed Oct 5 11:22:10 UTC 2011

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Friedrich Lindenberg
<friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org> wrote:

>> The proposed scheme involves generating a schema which has an X_entry
>> table, and one table per taxonomy. Are we calling all of the following
>> things taxonomies:
>>
>> 1) COFOG
>> 2) entities (in our current sense of transactional endpoint / graph node)
>> 3) classification schemes used only a single dataset (e.g., "AccountGroup")
>>
>> and would they all give rise to table in your proposal?
>
> Yes & yes. (Note we're talking about taxonomy names, not dimension names.)

Ah yes, that's a good point.

So, AccountGroup above would have been the name of some column in the
CSV file. Would we make up a taxonomy name to describe the valid
values which can appear in the dimension, rather than leave it out?

Mk