[Data-modeling] Visual Art Form - an enumerated type?

[Jeff Prucher]

That's a good question. It seems like the art form type is pretty broad;
i.e., it includes not only sculpture but also relief and bas-relief. I
thought at first that this type was only used for the very high-level
artform (e.g., sculpture, painting, photogrpahy, etc.), in which case an
enumeration would make more sense -- there are probably only a couple dozen
or so such options.  But since the type really does seem to include varying
levels of specificity, I'd be inclined to say that it shouldn't be an
enumeration, either.

This also raises the question of whether this type needs a phylogeny
pattern. I.e., a pair of parent/child or superclass/subclass properties.  So
we could say that "bas-relief" is a variety of "relief" which is itself a
variety of "sculpture".

Jeff Prucher

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> Should Visual Art Form be an enumeration? The client doesn't 
> allow you to add types which are enumerations when you click 
> "Add a Type", and this seems like something that changes 
> relatively frequently.
> 
> Bobby
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