[Data-modeling] periodical subjects

[Robert Cook]

My personal take is that only your top item is genre.  There exist  
explicit properties to encode the three middle ones, and the last one  
could be done with a subject property to the topic "Jean-Luc Picard".

R
On Dec 13, 2008, at 1:14 PM, Kurt Bollacker wrote:

>
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 12:42:09PM -0800, Alexander Marks wrote:
>> Can we add a Subjects property to periodical? I don't see any  
>> current way to say that ST Format is a magazine about the Atari ST.  
>> Magazine genre seems to be very broad, and I also don't see why it  
>> only applies to magazines and not newspapers, etc.
>
> Which brings up the whole question of semantic differences between
> genre and subject. Genre can be thought of as a usually abstractly
> defined subject chosen from a somewhat limited, and commonly
> recognized set.  Subjects can be very specific.  I suppose there's a
> threshold somewhere
>
> GENRE    Science Fiction Stories
>         Stories in the Star Trek Universe
>         Stories set in the TNG Canon
>         Stories set on the 1701D
> SUBJECT  Stories about Picard
>
> Where is the divider?
>
> 								Kurt :-)
>
>
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