How Freebase deals with boxed sets, and multi-part releases, etc.

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> I ended up getting rid of PeriodicalVolume because, while it was a
> parallel to the Season in Series/Season/Episode and did provide a
> natural place for a volume number to live, people actually talk about
> and buy seasons of TV shows in boxed sets and online. Periodicals, on
> the other hand, you don't really buy by the volume, or talk with your
> friends about that great volume of Lancet. Subscriptions are typically
> date-bounded, not tied to the start or finish of a given volume.
>

I just wanted to let Dan know, and anyone else, to keep in the back of his
mind for later on...

In Freebase we began some work on a generalization of a MediaPackage to
handle boxed sets, etc.
I guess you could think of it in general as a Thing that has Parts ?, but
more specifically, it's a multi-part media release which is then "packaged".

Which we choose to use the term "Components" for that type, instead of the
more confusing "Parts".

Here's the Domain Schema that you can explore and see some of the Freebase
Types that we created:

https://www.freebase.com/base/mediapackage?schema=

One of the interesting types is MediaPackage itself, defined in Freebase as

"any multi-part media release (such as a DVD boxed set). Packages consist
of multiple Media Releases, which represent the units of a package (such as
a single DVD). Media Releases in turn contain one or more Audio or Video
items (such as each of the TV episodes on a DVD of a television show."

Here's a single instance of what one MediaPackage looks like:

PLEASE CLICK on the below link to really understand it, and notice the
discs under Components for Media Package, this is not a completely filled
out example, but the fastest one I could find...

The Complete Miles Davis at Montreux: 1973-1991
https://www.freebase.com/m/0bvrmq5

Hope it helps in the future,

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