RE: Series

The Product Ontology includes several types of series:

 

http://www.productontology.org/id/Book_series

http://www.productontology.org/id/Film_series

 

More could be added by fixing up Wikipedia pages to represent them.

 

Jeff

 

From: Tom Morris [mailto:tfmorris@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 11:38 AM
To: Graham Bell
Cc: Wallis,Richard; public-schemabibex@w3.org; Laura Dawson
Subject: 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
	Resent-From: <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.