[Data-modeling] More publishing changes: adding link from "author" to "book edition"

[Kirrily Robert]

+1.

K.

----- "Jeff Prucher" <jeff at metaweb.com> wrote:
> I'm thinking about adding a new property to "book edition", which will
> link
> it directly to the "author" type, rather than having the only link to
> "author" be mediated through the "book" type. This is a bit of a
> denormalization, but allows us to accurately associate book editions
> to
> authors without necessarily having to reconcile different editions of
> the
> same book together. (This reconciliation is desirable -- don’t get me
> wrong,
> but it can be very difficult.) This property essentially mimics the
> way
> "musical artist" and "musical track" are related in Freebase --
> artists are
> linked directly to both albums (which contain tracks) and the tracks
> themselves. It also makes the book schema more easily compatible with
> MARC,
> and probably other bibliographic schemata, which does not reconcile
> separate
> book editions together, and additionally will hopefully make it easier
> for
> naïve users to input the books on their shelves directly without
> having to
> figure out the whole book/book edition relationship which is confusing
> to a
> lot of people. Ideally, of course, I'd like to see all book editions
> reconciled to their books, but this can be done post-hoc either by
> automated
> processes or geeky bibliophiles -- I mean, the community. :)
> 
> Sample:
> Toni Morrison, with her novel "Beloved" entered both as a "book" and
> as four
> "book editions". The editions are linked both directly to the Toni
> Morrison
> topic and to the Beloved "book" topic.
> http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/en/toni_morrison
> 
> Jeff Prucher
> Type Librarian & Ontologist
> Metaweb Technologies, Inc. 
> 
> 
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Kirrily Robert
Freebase Community Director
kirrily at metaweb.com