Re: Wikidata book schema

Am 16.09.2013 18:05 schrieb Karen Coyle :

> Pascal, what I am finding, perhaps because it's what I hope to find ;-), 
> is that most functioning systems create a graph design with few 
> properties exclusive to a particular entity. So I agree that Works can 
> have subjects, but so can Editions. 

Agreed. My and Etiennes concern was that a "subject" property was omitted in
whole, on whatever level. So I'll copy and paste that property also to the
edition level.

cheers, pascal

> 
> kc
> 
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> [1] http://viaf.org
> 
> On 9/16/13 8:44 AM, Christoph, Pascal wrote:
>> Am 15.09.2013 17:15 schrieb Antoine Isaac :
>>
>>> The round-up of sites sounds like a great idea, Karen!
>>
>> The comparison may find that the wikidata book task force[0] misses a
>> "dcterms:subject" on the work level. This is what at least Etienne and me is
>> thinking.[1]
>> Not sure if my proposal "main category topic"[0] is correct - what do you think?
>>
>> pascal
>>
>> [0]https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Books_task_force
>> [1]https://twitter.com/dr0ide/status/379496420870328320
>>
>>> A.
>>>
>>>> Thanks, Antoine. I hadn't seen this. I note that they refer to "Work" and "Edition" which is also the terminology used by Open Library. (Plus they have "item" for individual books, like rare books.) I've begun a (hopefully short) round-up of bibliographic sites to see what levels of abstraction they use, and what they call them. This fits into that nicely.
>>>>
>>>> kc
>>>>
>>>> On 9/15/13 2:58 AM, Antoine Isaac wrote:
>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>
>>>>> This may have been sent to the list before, but in case...
>>>>> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Books_task_force
>>>>>
>>>>> I believe this can be a quite useful reference in terms of use case.
>>>>> These are properties that somehow reflect user needs, it's likely that
>>>>> it would end expressed in schema.org one day.
>>>>>
>>>>> Would it be a task for this group to have a look at this schema, and
>>>>> flag any missing properties to schema.org?
>>>>>
>>>>> Note that it could also bring input for our 'work' debate. They have
>>>>> only two levels, work and edition. Apparently they regard the edition to
>>>>> be either the expression or manifestion (or both of them in fact), and
>>>>> the link between the edition and the work is simply 'edition of'.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> Antoine
>>>>>
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