- From: Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net>
- Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 09:14:34 -0800
- To: public-schemabibex@w3.org
On 2/15/13 8:37 AM, Tom Morris wrote: > > 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> While I think that this is technically correct, I'm not sure under what circumstances the difference will matter. Maybe we need use cases? kc > > 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 >> <http://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 >> <mailto:richard.wallis@oclc.org>> >> Date: Friday, February 15, 2013 9:51 AM >> To: "public-schemabibex@w3.org <mailto:public-schemabibex@w3.org>" >> <public-schemabibex@w3.org <mailto:public-schemabibex@w3.org>> >> Subject: Series >> Resent-From: <public-schemabibex@w3.org >> <mailto:public-schemabibex@w3.org>> >> Resent-Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:52:38 +0000 >> >> 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. > > -- Karen Coyle kcoyle@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet
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