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

[Faye Li]

I agree. :) It's such a great idea it was implemented a long time ago: 
"visual art medium", instances of which includes "oil paint", "acrylic 
paint", "watercolor paint", etc.

-- Faye


Nick Thompson wrote:
> 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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>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 6:22 PM
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>>> Subject: [Data-modeling] Visual Art Form - an enumerated type?
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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.
>>>
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