[Data-modeling] Proposed refactoring in the publishing domain

[Daniel Renfer]

While this will make it slightly harder to find information for the simple
case (author of a book) I think this will make it much easier to model the
more complex types of contributions to a published work.

You should consider replacing Magazine's Cover Artist with a Cover
Contributor. I'm sure there are a few other types where this could replace
multiple properties. (ie. Comic Books)

On 12/13/07, Jeff Prucher <jeff at metaweb.com> wrote:
>
> There have been several requests made, over the last few months, to allow
> for more flexibility of attributing authorship and other contributions to
> written works, and also to add various properties to a number of types in
> the publishing domain. Toward this end, I've created a new type, "written
> work" that will be an included type on all the various types that
> represent
> written works -- book, short story, poem, short non-fiction, review, and
> translation.
>
> The new type is currently on sandbox. I'd appreciate it if anyone who is
> interested could take a look at it and let me know what you think. Please
> look before Monday evening (Pacific Time), since sandbox will be refreshed
> then.
> http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/schema/book/written_work
>
> I've filled out the contents of the April 2007 issue of the Magazine of
> Fantasy and Science Fiction as an example. Click the various items in the
> contents property to see the type in action.
> http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000514f951
>
> One feature is to treat authorship (or similar form of creative
> contribution) as a compound value type which will allow for multiple types
> of contribution to be recorded in the same property and for all the
> disparate types of works to be listed together on the contributors' pages.
> Currently, author and editor are treated as separate properties; having a
> single property will allow Freebase to reconcile more easily to other
> data-sources, which usually store these in the same field. This will also
> allow us to record books where the illustrator is tied to the book itself,
> rather to individual editions (as in most children's picture books, but as
> opposed to, say, an illustrated edition of Huckleberry Finn).
> See http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000006c3521e
> and http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/make_way_for_ducklings for some
> further
> examples.
>
> Another of the new type is that a number of other properties can usefully
> be
> shared by all types of written works, rather than being distributed onto
> each. These properties are: original language, date written, copyright
> date,
> date of first publication, and online versions. Others will probably
> arise,
> but this seems like a good set to start with.
>
> (I'm copying the developers list in case anyone is writing an application
> using any of the publishing domain types.)
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jeff Prucher
> Type Librarian & Ontologist
> Metaweb
>
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