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

[Jeff Prucher]

Technically speaking, the type "illustrator" has already replaced the types
"book illustrator", "magazine cover artist" and "book cover artist" with the
previous major refactoring, but we never cleaned out the deprecated types.
The current proposal is to keep the new "illustrator" type and just change
the properties on it.

Jeff Prucher 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of Danny Hillis
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> Subject: Re: [Data-modeling] Last (hopefully!) book 
> remodeling proposal
> 
> 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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