[Data-modeling] playwright?

[Jon Reitsma]

But films are different?  Even films based on books can have screenwriters who aren't the book author.  Isn't the same true of a play?  Also not all plays are published and the Author type description, while including some plays, limits it to published plays and specifically says it is someone who has written a book. 


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Prucher" <jeff at metaweb.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 8, 2009 2:49:40 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: [Data-modeling] playwright?

Well, he has a writing credit for the stage version now!  

The nice thing about written work is the properties on it are common to many
different types of works, including plays.  Adding a separate playwright
property to Play would create a denormalization, since it would duplicate
the Author property of written work.

Jeff


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> Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 2:41 PM
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> Subject: [Data-modeling] playwright?
> 
> Does anyone else think we should add a Playwright property to 
> Play?  We have Composer and Lyricist but what about the 
> writer?  Instead it seems that the Written Work type has been 
> added ass an included type.
> 
> Personally I think it should be the same as how we treat 
> screenwriters (what we call Film Writers).  A good example of 
> one (of many) who have written both films and plays is Arthur 
> Laurents:
> 
> http://www.freebase.com/view/en/arthur_laurents
> 
> Here you can see he has a number of film writing credits - 
> even for the film version of West Side Story but no similar 
> treatment for the stage version.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> j
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