<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hello all,</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>Unless there is serious objection, we will be making the following changes to existing types next week. Please let us know if you have any objections to or questions about these changes. The specific changes, and rationale for them, are provided below. We hope to keep such changes to a minimum, but as we have moved through alpha, a variety of issues with some schemas have been discovered, and we are hoping to resolve as many of them as possible before we reach beta. All such changes will be announced on these lists, and we will take any concerns or objections from the community into consideration.<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Sports Awards</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">A continuation of the normalization of some domain-specific awards. Like the last schema change, we are making this change because many domains had nearly identical schemata to model awards specific to that domain. Since most domains could potentially have awards associated with them, we decided to use a general type schema, rather than requiring separate but similar types in many domains. However, after the domain administrators of the sports domain expressed some concerns over the semantics of a sports season being an award winning work, together we agreed to first normalize all sports award with the existing Sports League Award type and examine the migration to the awards domain more closely. In the future, we may normalize th Sports League Award type to the awards domain.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "> * /cricket</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "> * /soccer </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Publishing</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">In order to allow for more flexibility in the modeling of authors and illustrators, and also to reduce the number of redundant properties on the different types in the publishing domain, we are adding two sets of types to the publishing domain (one set each for writers and illustrators). The types "written work" and "illustrated work" are supporting types. "Written work" contains properties common to all or most varieties of writing (author, copyright date, date of publication, language, etc.); "Illustrated work" simply has a property for illustrator. The type "writer" will replace the types "author," "editor," "poet," "reviewer," and "interviewer"; the type "illustrator" will replace the types "book illustrator," "book cover artist" and "magazine cover artist". The new types being introduced are:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "> * /book/writer</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "> * /book/written_work</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "> * /book/authorship</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "> * /book/authorship_role</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "> * /book/illustrator</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "> * /book/illustrated_work</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "> * /book/illustration_role</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "> * /book/illustration_instance </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Music</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Work on multi-part musical releases is still in progress. Multi-Part Musical Release and Musical Release Component will be added to the Music domain.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "> * Individual discs (like The Beatles (disc 1)) will be made Release Components</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "> * New multi-part releases will be created corresponding to these sets of individual discs</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "> * Albums currently titled (disc n) will be merged together </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>If you have any opinion on any of the changes, please feel free to respond to the mailing list or to me directly.<br><br>Thanks for contributing,<br><br>Bryan Cheung<br><a href="mailto:bryan.cheung@metaweb.com">bryan.cheung@metaweb.com</a></div></div></body></html>