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

[Nick Thompson]

it seems like a "media" property for works of art (e.g. "oil paints",
"silver gelatin print", and/or "marble") is probably more expressive than
trying to build types for paintings, sculptures, etc and arrange them
in some sort of type hierarchy.   there's a lot of mixed-media work
out there.

     nick

Jeff Prucher wrote:
> 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
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of Bobby Rullo
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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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