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

[Danny Hillis]

I assume Illustrator is intended to replace Book Illustrator?
-Danny

On Apr 16, 2008, at 2:19 PM, Jeff Prucher wrote:

> 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.
>
>
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