While this will make it slightly harder to find information for the simple case (author of a book) I think this will make it much easier to model the more complex types of contributions to a published work.<br><br>You should consider replacing Magazine's Cover Artist with a Cover Contributor. I'm sure there are a few other types where this could replace multiple properties. (ie. Comic Books)
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeff Prucher</b> <<a href="mailto:jeff@metaweb.com">jeff@metaweb.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
There have been several requests made, over the last few months, to allow<br>for more flexibility of attributing authorship and other contributions to<br>written works, and also to add various properties to a number of types in
<br>the publishing domain. Toward this end, I've created a new type, "written<br>work" that will be an included type on all the various types that represent<br>written works -- book, short story, poem, short non-fiction, review, and
<br>translation.<br><br>The new type is currently on sandbox. I'd appreciate it if anyone who is<br>interested could take a look at it and let me know what you think. Please<br>look before Monday evening (Pacific Time), since sandbox will be refreshed
<br>then.<br><a href="http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/schema/book/written_work">http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/schema/book/written_work</a><br><br>I've filled out the contents of the April 2007 issue of the Magazine of
<br>Fantasy and Science Fiction as an example. Click the various items in the<br>contents property to see the type in action.<br><a href="http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000514f951">http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000514f951
</a><br><br>One feature is to treat authorship (or similar form of creative<br>contribution) as a compound value type which will allow for multiple types<br>of contribution to be recorded in the same property and for all the
<br>disparate types of works to be listed together on the contributors' pages.<br>Currently, author and editor are treated as separate properties; having a<br>single property will allow Freebase to reconcile more easily to other
<br>data-sources, which usually store these in the same field. This will also<br>allow us to record books where the illustrator is tied to the book itself,<br>rather to individual editions (as in most children's picture books, but as
<br>opposed to, say, an illustrated edition of Huckleberry Finn).<br>See <a href="http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000006c3521e">http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000006c3521e
</a><br>and <a href="http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/make_way_for_ducklings">http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/make_way_for_ducklings</a> for some further<br>examples.<br><br>Another of the new type is that a number of other properties can usefully be
<br>shared by all types of written works, rather than being distributed onto<br>each. These properties are: original language, date written, copyright date,<br>date of first publication, and online versions. Others will probably arise,
<br>but this seems like a good set to start with.<br><br>(I'm copying the developers list in case anyone is writing an application<br>using any of the publishing domain types.)<br><br>Thanks in advance,<br>Jeff Prucher
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