[Freebase-discuss] Draft Definition of /book/author

[Tom Morris]

You need to account for corporate authors, so "anyone" should be
expanded to include organizations, companies, government agencies,
etc.

If we can ever drive the Author/Person included type issue to
resolution, the definition should be updated to reflect that flagging
that people should remove Person and add
a Company/Organization/Government Agency for corporate authors.

Tom

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Anne Semana <nsemana at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Please review our draft definition and wiki page of /book/author.
>
> Old definition:
> The Author type is used for anyone who has written prose (whether fiction,
> essay, journalism, or scholarship), poetry, drama, or written or edited a
> book of any sort. This therefore includes editors of anthologies, whether or
> not the editor has written any material included in the anthology, and also
> includes artists in other media such as the fine arts and music, who may
> have had monographs or songbooks (for example) published. It also can
> include businesses and organizations when a written work is credited to one,
> rather than to a person.  It does not automatically include scriptwriters
> for television and film (see the types TV Writer and Film Writer for these).
>
> http://www.freebase.com/view/book/author
>
> Updated definition:
> An author is a creator of a written or published work. The Author type is
> used for anyone who has written prose (whether fiction, essay, journalism,
> or scholarship), poetry, drama, or written or edited a book of any sort.
> This therefore includes editors of anthologies, whether or not the editor
> has written any material included in the anthology, and also includes
> artists in other media such as the fine arts and music, who may have had
> monographs or songbooks (for example) published. It also can include
> businesses and organizations when a written work is credited to one, rather
> than to a person. It does not include scriptwriters for television and film
> (see the types TV Writer and Film Writer for these).
>
> http://wiki.freebase.com/wiki/Commons/book/author
>
> Thanks,
> Anne
>
> --
> Anne Semana
>
>
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