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

[Nick Thompson]

Faye Li wrote:
> 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.

hmm, i was thinking of something more general than "what kind of paint",
which is why i mentioned "marble" as a possible medium.  not to mention 
"cigarette butts", "human hair", etc.  this avoids the question of how
many layers of resin you have to put on top of a photograph before it's
a "sculpture" instead of a "painting", and doesn't suggest that
"cigarette butt" should be co-typed as "visual art medium".

     nick


> 
> -- 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-----
>>>> From: data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com 
>>>> [mailto:data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of Bobby Rullo
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 6:22 PM
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>>>> Subject: [Data-modeling] Visual Art Form - an enumerated type?
>>>>
>>>> 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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