Hi, can we add "Previous Episode" and "Next Episode" properties to the TV series episode type? In addition to capturing the sequential data on TV episodes, that would also be a useful navigation tool for browsing.
Previous and Next Episodes
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I also would use it. I'm wondering though, could that not be generated automatically based on episode number? Have you (staff) considered adding the functionality for field that could be generated from a query?
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We have considered it, but we've not had a chance to actually implement it. Generally, we assume that 'higher functionality' like that would be the purview of an application developer that's focused on a particular subject area, in this case Television. The Freebase app is really the 80% solution, where dedicated developers can do something far more specific.
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To get the hang of things here I messed around with a type extending "TV Episode" and added "preceded by" reciprocating as "followed by". Agreed, it helps navigate, and it's also common on the wikipedia source articles as well.
However my guess is there should be a much grander type involved here for anything that can be ordered in a sequence, not just TV shows. Items may probably appear in more than one sequence as well (for example, story chronology isn't the same as release chronology - Star Wars movies are the cliche example).
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A lot of things are sequential, but I think an abstract type ("sequential thing"?) for all of them would be more trouble than it's worth. The pattern is just a variation of the parent/child pattern, which appears all over the place in Freebase, without an abstract type collecting them all. That said, I can't think of any reason that TV episode shouldn't have previous/next properties. If no one objects, I'll add them later this week.
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The properties are there now. Have at them!
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Yay, thanks Jeff!
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