Fwd: Things for Sale vs Reference Information

> Perhaps there is a standard answer to this question.  Perhaps there should be an additional field on Thing.
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> Some pages (eBay, Amazon) clearly describe things that are for sale.  Other pages, might be more akin to encyclopedia pages (wikis).  It seems to me that a Thing page should be able to describe itself as one or the other.  This can assist people by differentiating between searches for people looking to buy something vs people looking to learn more about something.  
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> In the world of financial securities, we differentiate the two types of data as being either “market data” or “security master data”.
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> Perhaps subclassing thing into thing-for-sale versus thing-description is the right way to go.  I assume someone has already given this some thought and can explain to me the accepted solution for differentiation.
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> Thanks,
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> George
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> Sent from my iPad

Received on Monday, 11 March 2019 14:55:35 UTC