[Data-modeling] Unfinished work / lost work

[Jeff Prucher]

Could be a candidate for the Media Common domain, if it's just going to be a
bucket. There are lots of unfinished musical works, as well.  I assume that
Unfinished Work would then also be typed with whatever relevant types (like
Written Work) applied, so that you could see the creator, dates, subjects,
etc. So would "The Last Tycoon" also be typed as a Book, even though
Fizgerald never published it as such, and may not otherwise have been long
enough to even be a book?  I think that would work for Raymond Chandler's
unfinished novel "The Poodle Springs Story", so that one could assert that
Philip Marlowe was one of the characters. Otherwise, I don't see a way to
make such an assertion.

Jeff 

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> [mailto:data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of Faye Li
> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 1:48 AM
> To: data-modeling at freebase.com
> Subject: [Data-modeling] Unfinished work / lost work
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to have a "Unfinished Work" type in the Book domain 
> for capturing unfinished written works. F. Scott Fitzgerald's 
> "The Last Tycoon" is an example. It's more interesting when 
> another author finishes the work -- something more common 
> with short stories. Other than that I can't think of any 
> other property this type would have.
> 
> Along the same line I'd like to have a "Lost Work" type in 
> the Publishing domain to apply to written works that no 
> longer exist. An example here is Shakespeare's "Love's 
> Labour's Won", which is believed to be a sequel to "Love's 
> Labour's Lost". 
> 
> An equivalent type "Lost Artwork" seems to make sense in the 
> Visual Art domain as well.
> 
> Anyone else interested in these types? Are they enough to be 
> types in the commons, or more suitable in bases?
> 
> -- Faye
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