[Data-modeling] Last (hopefully!) book remodeling proposal

[Jeff Prucher]

The final piece in the book refactoring puzzle is the illustrator. Since I'm
already refactoring out the "authorship" CVT, it makes sense to factor the
illustrator CVT back out as well. In doing so, I'm also trying to simplify
the original model, rather than simply reverting to it.

The new proposal is for a type "illustrator" with specific properties for
each type of illustration: book edition cover, book edition interior illos,
book illos (for picture books and the like where the illustrations do not
vary between editions), magazine cover, magazine interior illos. 

Schema:
http://sandbox.freebase.com/tools/schema/book/illustrator

Some examples:
Alvim Correa -- book edition cover and interiors: 
http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000004e3dc86

An issue of the Saturday Evening Post, with cover artist and interior
artists:
http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000006ad4af6

The Lorax, canonically illustrated by Dr. Seuss:
http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/en/the_lorax

Two things that this schema doesn't allow for, and which I'm hesitant to do
unless there's real demand, are:
1) Provide instance-level data about interior illustrations (so that we
would be able to say that Arthur Fuller illustrated the story "Lassie
Come-Home" in the above-linked SEP)
2) Provide instance-level data about individual illustrations, period. (So
that we could know, for example, that the title of the painting by Rockwell
on the above issue of SEP is "'Merrie Christmas' or Muggleston Coach", or
that the Alvim Correa illustration that graces the cover of "Brave New
Words" is one of the interior illos from the 1906 edition of "La Guerre des
Mondes")

The former might be fairly straightforward, especially for magazines. The
latter would be more difficult, and probably much make data-entry that much
more complicated. I'll probably only consider doing them now if there is a
great outcry for them.

Jeff Prucher
Type Librarian & Ontologist
Metaweb Technologies, Inc.