+1<br><br>-Ed<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Kirrily Robert <<a href="mailto:kirrily@metaweb.com">kirrily@metaweb.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
+1.<br>
<br>
K.<br>
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----- "Jeff Prucher" <<a href="mailto:jeff@metaweb.com">jeff@metaweb.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I'm thinking about adding a new property to "book edition", which will<br>
> link<br>
> it directly to the "author" type, rather than having the only link to<br>
> "author" be mediated through the "book" type. This is a bit of a<br>
> denormalization, but allows us to accurately associate book editions<br>
> to<br>
> authors without necessarily having to reconcile different editions of<br>
> the<br>
> same book together. (This reconciliation is desirable -- don't get me<br>
> wrong,<br>
> but it can be very difficult.) This property essentially mimics the<br>
> way<br>
> "musical artist" and "musical track" are related in Freebase --<br>
> artists are<br>
> linked directly to both albums (which contain tracks) and the tracks<br>
> themselves. It also makes the book schema more easily compatible with<br>
> MARC,<br>
> and probably other bibliographic schemata, which does not reconcile<br>
> separate<br>
> book editions together, and additionally will hopefully make it easier<br>
> for<br>
> naïve users to input the books on their shelves directly without<br>
> having to<br>
> figure out the whole book/book edition relationship which is confusing<br>
> to a<br>
> lot of people. Ideally, of course, I'd like to see all book editions<br>
> reconciled to their books, but this can be done post-hoc either by<br>
> automated<br>
> processes or geeky bibliophiles -- I mean, the community. :)<br>
><br>
> Sample:<br>
> Toni Morrison, with her novel "Beloved" entered both as a "book" and<br>
> as four<br>
> "book editions". The editions are linked both directly to the Toni<br>
> Morrison<br>
> topic and to the Beloved "book" topic.<br>
> <a href="http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/en/toni_morrison" target="_blank">http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/en/toni_morrison</a><br>
><br>
> Jeff Prucher<br>
> Type Librarian & Ontologist<br>
> Metaweb Technologies, Inc.<br>
><br>
><br>
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Kirrily Robert<br>
Freebase Community Director<br>
<a href="mailto:kirrily@metaweb.com">kirrily@metaweb.com</a><br>
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