Re: Series

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.
>
>

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