Re: Wikidata book schema

The round-up of sites sounds like a great idea, Karen!

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> Thanks, Antoine. I hadn't seen this. I note that they refer to "Work" and "Edition" which is also the terminology used by Open Library. (Plus they have "item" for individual books, like rare books.) I've begun a (hopefully short) round-up of bibliographic sites to see what levels of abstraction they use, and what they call them. This fits into that nicely.
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> kc
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> On 9/15/13 2:58 AM, Antoine Isaac wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> This may have been sent to the list before, but in case...
>> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Books_task_force
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>> I believe this can be a quite useful reference in terms of use case.
>> These are properties that somehow reflect user needs, it's likely that
>> it would end expressed in schema.org one day.
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>> Would it be a task for this group to have a look at this schema, and
>> flag any missing properties to schema.org?
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>> Note that it could also bring input for our 'work' debate. They have
>> only two levels, work and edition. Apparently they regard the edition to
>> be either the expression or manifestion (or both of them in fact), and
>> the link between the edition and the work is simply 'edition of'.
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>> Cheers,
>>
>> Antoine
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