Andrew Gray, 17/08/2015 13:29:
In some ways, merging seems more elegant. We do have
fairly good
gender metadata (and getting better all the time!), so we can still do
gender-specific relationship searches where needed. It also avoids
having to force a binary gender approach - we are in the odd position
of being able to give a nuanced entry in P21 but can only say if
someone is a "sister" or "brother".
I think this is quite important. I think properties should focus on one
thing at a time and there is no need to state both gender and family
relationship in the same statement.
Also, are we really sure we don't currently have linguistic issues? I
bet there is at least one language in the world where "sister" and
"brother" are not two distinct words.
Nemo