- From: Tom Morris <tfmorris@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 13:46:14 -0500
- To: Laura Dawson <ljndawson@gmail.com>
- Cc: kcoyle@kcoyle.net, "public-schemabibex@w3.org" <public-schemabibex@w3.org>
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Laura Dawson <ljndawson@gmail.com> wrote: > When I was at Muze (now Rovi), which aggregates data about books, music, > movies, and video games, we used the example of "The Godfather", which is > a book, a soundtrack, several movies, and a video game. We wanted to > define the concept/story of "The Godfather" uniquely, and branch out by > type of product from that. That's an interesting example. One way to model it would be like this: Book http://www.freebase.com/view/m/0c8zk linked to 26 editions, the movie, and the sequels Movie http://www.freebase.com/view/en/the_godfather linked to 48 releases, the soundtrack, the sequels, and the video games Video game http://www.freebase.com/view/en/the_godfather_the_game linked to 9 different game platform releases Soundtrack http://www.freebase.com/view/m/01jrzr6 linked to releases on LP & CD (http://www.freebase.com/view/m/0310kvs) Movie sequel http://www.freebase.com/view/en/the_godfather_part_ii Movie sequel http://www.freebase.com/view/en/the_godfather_part_iii Book sequel http://www.freebase.com/view/en/the_sicilian Movie adaptation of the book sequel http://www.freebase.com/view/m/0280rsv Subject of The Sicilian http://www.freebase.com/view/en/salvatore_giuliano Opera Salvatore Giuliano http://www.freebase.com/view/m/04j6s8q Book about the opera http://www.freebase.com/view/en/nascita_di_unopera_salvatore_giuliano the sole edition of that book http://www.freebase.com/view/m/0pd67pk linked to its OpenLibrary entry http://openlibrary.org/books/OL19739222M/Nascita_di_un'opera_Salvatore_Giuliano All the pages are linked to Wikipedia, Netflix, OpenLibrary, MusicBrainz, LCNAF, VIAF, etc as appropriate. There are obviously lots of ways to model this, but I think the important thing is to work with real world data in the schema and get experience with what works and what needs to be modified. I helped this example a bit by adding a UPC code to the CD release and creating the final book edition entry, but everything else was there already fully populated in an existing schema, so it's not an impossible task. Another view of this data can be had by just typing "The Godfather" into Google. It's apparently decided that's the movie, but it also suggests the related search "The Godfather novel." Tom
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