Re: [schemaorg] Vocabulary for comics (#378)

Hi Sean:

To answer your very first question which somewhat got buried by the Role
discussion, the Comics portion of the Periodicals and Comics Synthesis
proposal is definitely open for discussion and further development. Heck,
the periodical portion is too, but it would probably be more fruitful to
focus on getting comics shipped. Did you follow the previous discussions we
held on this list during the development of the Comics portion of the
proposal? We might want to loop Henry (from GCD) and Peter (ex of Marvel)
back into the discussion once we revisit the proposal and have something
concrete to bring forward.

Aside: Even though a quick glance suggests you've put a ton of work into
it, I'll admit that I haven't looked too deeply at CBO yet, because the
landing page only says "Copyright Sean Petiya". With no accompanying
licence, and no licence in your github repo either, that means that it's
effectively "all rights reserved" and can be problematic for open
collaboration purposes. It would be great to see something like a CC-BY-SA
licence attached to it!

Looking forward to moving forward on comics,
Dan
Hi Antonie,


> I wonder how the comics ontology relates to some work on manga seem in the
> past
> http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2467696.2467731
> http://dcpapers.dublincore.org/pubs/article/download/979/952


The ontology focuses primarily on the description of print comic books and
collections, particularly condition, certification, grade, and other
aspects of collecting American comic books. However, the underling
conceptual model is intended to represent the comics visual form regardless
of container, so I'd imagine both frameworks would ultimately be compatible
to some degree.

While the ontology includes models for the visual structure of comics [1],
encoding actual comics/manga content is better addressed by the Manga
Metadata Framework and CBML. I reviewed these projects as part of my thesis
[2], but I have not yet included an explicit map to them.

Also see these very cool MMF examples:

http://sils.unc.edu/events/2013/digital-manga
http://mdlab.slis.tsukuba.ac.jp/lodc2012/talesoflod/


I hope that helps to answer your question!

Sean

[1] https://comicmeta.org/cbo/Sequence.html
[2] http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1416791055