[Data-modeling] Upcoming schema changes

[Micah Saul]

I agree completely with these remarks.

Writer = poet, author, essayist, etc.
Writer != editor

I admit I have not looked at the publishing domain at all, so this  
question may be obvious, but what do we gain by making these changes?  
How redundant are the properties of, say, "author" and "editor"?

On Feb 26, 2008, at 4:41 PM, Tom Morris wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Bryan Cheung <bryan.cheung at metaweb.com 
> > wrote:
>
>> The type "writer" will replace the
>> types "author," "editor," "poet," "reviewer," and "interviewer";
>
> I'd be willing accept that a "poet" and an "author" are both examples
> of a "writer," but an "editor" is a different beast altogether.  If
> you really want a term that will cover all of these roles, it needs to
> be something more generic like "contributor." Of course, the more
> generic you make it, the less useful it becomes (not just the name,
> but the number of roles it covers).
>
> Tom
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