Re: Checking in on Comics work

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From: Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com>To: hha1@cornell.edu Cc: "public-schemabibex@w3.org" <public-schemabibex@w3.org> Sent: Sunday, October 4, 2015 9:17 PMSubject: Re: Checking in on Comics work

There's no fixed timeline. Basically when we launched v2.1 with thebib and auto extensions, our main focus was on getting the underlyingsite infrastructure in a functional state, so we throw together some"this might yet change" wording as a warning that the actual contentof the extensions might yet change. Since all of schema.org tends toevolve slowly and continue changing, this should not be too shocking.
It would be really helpful if you can share any feedback on how wellthe current comic-related schemas and vocab match your dataset andapplication...
Dan



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Thanks, that all makes sense.  I'll take a look at how things line up.  I was just looking at ComicIssue and started writing up a few things, but it got really long so I think I will start a new thread on each of the longer topic.  Here are a few simple questions:
* Are all fields potentially multi-value?  In particular "isPartOf"?  Issues do sometimes belong to multiple series, and there's a range of cases around content simultaneously published in multiple places.  It may be that the schema can handle this just by only looking at one situation at a time- we don't actually handle these multiple parent cases very well right now, but we want to.
* I saw a reference to a "volume number" in the intro text for ComicIssue, but I don't see a volume field on either ComicIssue or ComicSeries.  Am I missing something?
* Are you interested in comments on information that is not addressed in your schema at all?  If I see something that I think is of core importance, I will mention that, but there are other things that are a bit farther afield.  For instance, we track publisher branding and the brand emblems (logo or a text tagline) that appear on issues.  We also track a lot of format and physical descriptions (magazine, hardcover, softcover, what kind of paper, what kind of binding, etc.).  I guess I'm trying to figure out what is in vs out of scope for you.
* One big thing that I don't see is reprint tracking- this is a *huge* focus for many of our indexers.  I see that you have translations handled, but a lot of people want to find out if there is an attainable publication of a particular story (trade paperback collection, or a modern reprint of an otherwise prohibitively expensive older comic).
OK, I'll pause here :-)
thanks,-henry