Re: Series

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Graham Bell <graham@editeur.org> wrote:

> Not just children's titles. Nested series -- and intersecting series,
> where one book is #7 in one series and #3 in another -- are reasonably
> common in scholarly monograph publishing.
>

I think it's useful to distinguish between series created by authors (e.g.
Dune) and series created by publisher (Great American Classics) because
they have very different characteristics.  Freebase calls these two
different things Literary
Series<http://www.freebase.com/view/book/literary_series>and Book
Edition Series <http://www.freebase.com/view/book/book_edition_series>


> And a single series might have multiple sequential orderings. Compare
> publication order with narrative order, for example (my usual example is *The
> Chronicles of Narnia*, where *Voyage of the Dawn Treader* can be #3 or
> #5, but you could equally consider *Star Wars *or anything with a*'prequel'
> *). Again, films may have done this already.
>

Publication date sequencing can be computed using existing information, so
I think narrative sequence is the more important thing to capture.

Tom



> Graham
> EDItEUR
>
> On 15 Feb 2013, at 15:23, Laura Dawson wrote:
>
> That's a good idea, actually. One thing that concerned me initially was
> the fact that particularly with children's titles, series have series
> within series (it's a marketing thing - get a kid hooked on a series, and
> then start up a sub-series). We spent a lot of time grappling with this at
> Barnes & Noble.com. But then I remembered Law & Order and CSI - and yeah,
> I bet the TV structure already has this covered.
>
> From: Richard Wallis <richard.wallis@oclc.org>
> Date: Friday, February 15, 2013 9:51 AM
> To: "public-schemabibex@w3.org" <public-schemabibex@w3.org>
> Subject: Series
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> Looking at the Google Knowledge Graph display for Dune Messiah <
> http://www.google.co.uk/#q=dune+messiah> reminds me that we need to
> address the issue of series.
>
> Do we follow the model of TVSeries and TVEpisode – at least we would not
> have to worry about a TVSeason equivalent ;-)
>
> Then of course there are serials, but I think we should hold off opening
> that can of worms until we have agreed some of the simpler stuff!
>
> ~Richard.
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