Dear Ed (if I may),<br>I agree with you.<br><br>Two quickie notes. First, the alternative to "Author" is "Quotee". I'm not sure if that's a word, but it does clearly indicated "Quoted person" rather than "Person who is quoting". Also, make sure that page number is not actually a number as the front-matter of a book is often numbered using roman numerals, e.g. "iii".<br>
<br>Best,<br>mohammad<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Ed Laurent <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spatial.db@gmail.com">spatial.db@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm thinking of using the "Quotation" type to store quotes from
published works but need a page number property because page numbers
are often required when citing quotations. It appears that the page
number of the quote would need to be added as a disabiguator so that
this data can be entered when the "Quotation" type is linked as a
property of another type. Does this seem reasonable? <br>
<br>
I also see that "Author" (linked to "Quotations" property of "Person") is a property of "Quotation", and I'm assuming
that is for instances when the quotation is not from a published
source. Otherwise, it is adding denormalization. If this is the case,
wouldn't another name be more appropriate than "Author" (e.g., "Quoted person") to distinguish it
from "Author" of quoted publications?<br><font color="#888888">
<br>
-Ed
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