[Data-modeling] Last (hopefully!) book remodeling proposal

[Jeff Prucher]

Having heard an overwhelming lack of interest in whether or not I make this
change, I plan to make this change next week. If you suddenly decide that
you do care, drop a line before then.  

Jeff 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com 
> [mailto:data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Prucher
> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 2:20 PM
> To: 'Freebase data modeling mailing list'
> Subject: [Data-modeling] Last (hopefully!) book remodeling proposal
> 
> The final piece in the book refactoring puzzle is the 
> illustrator. Since I'm already refactoring out the 
> "authorship" CVT, it makes sense to factor the illustrator 
> CVT back out as well. In doing so, I'm also trying to 
> simplify the original model, rather than simply reverting to it.
> 
> The new proposal is for a type "illustrator" with specific 
> properties for each type of illustration: book edition cover, 
> book edition interior illos, book illos (for picture books 
> and the like where the illustrations do not vary between 
> editions), magazine cover, magazine interior illos. 
> 
> Schema:
> http://sandbox.freebase.com/tools/schema/book/illustrator
> 
> Some examples:
> Alvim Correa -- book edition cover and interiors: 
> http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000004e3dc86
> 
> An issue of the Saturday Evening Post, with cover artist and interior
> artists:
> http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000006ad4af6
> 
> The Lorax, canonically illustrated by Dr. Seuss:
> http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/en/the_lorax
> 
> Two things that this schema doesn't allow for, and which I'm 
> hesitant to do unless there's real demand, are:
> 1) Provide instance-level data about interior illustrations 
> (so that we would be able to say that Arthur Fuller 
> illustrated the story "Lassie Come-Home" in the above-linked SEP)
> 2) Provide instance-level data about individual 
> illustrations, period. (So that we could know, for example, 
> that the title of the painting by Rockwell on the above issue 
> of SEP is "'Merrie Christmas' or Muggleston Coach", or that 
> the Alvim Correa illustration that graces the cover of "Brave 
> New Words" is one of the interior illos from the 1906 edition 
> of "La Guerre des
> Mondes")
> 
> The former might be fairly straightforward, especially for 
> magazines. The latter would be more difficult, and probably 
> much make data-entry that much more complicated. I'll 
> probably only consider doing them now if there is a great 
> outcry for them.
> 
> Jeff Prucher
> Type Librarian & Ontologist
> Metaweb Technologies, Inc. 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Data-modeling mailing list
> Data-modeling at freebase.com
> http://lists.freebase.com/mailman/listinfo/data-modeling
>