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

[Ed Laurent]

+1

-Ed

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Kirrily Robert <kirrily at metaweb.com> wrote:

> +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
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