Re: Issue variants

Not being an aficionado of comics, these look like an enumeration of issue
types to me.

If my assumption is correct my first question is, is there an external
source for these and other types we could reference from a new property
such as comicIssueType - or would there be few enough of them, the meaning
of which are generally understood, for an enumeration type to be proposed
with a small set of enumeration types.  This would be similar in principle
to BookFormatType <http://schema.org/BookFormatType>, plus Hardcover
<http://schema.org/Hardcover>, EBook <http://schema.org/EBook>, etc.

Richard Wallis
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On 5 October 2015 at 12:16, Tom Adamich <vls@tusco.net> wrote:

> Great discussion.
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> However, are we really talking about “issue” here?  Should work be done to
> build out the properties associated with ComicIssue
> https://bib.schema.org/ComicIssue ?
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> Should the following be included?
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> ·         One shot
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> ·         Ashcan
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> ·         Complete run
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> ·         Key issue
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> ·         Warehouse copy
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> I’m trying to work within the lexicon of the comic book industry as a
> means of targeting the search experience.
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> Thanks for the educational opportunity.
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> Tom
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> *From:* hha1@cornell.edu [mailto:hha1@cornell.edu]
> *Sent:* Monday, October 5, 2015 3:00 AM
> *To:* public-schemabibex@w3.org
> *Subject:* Issue variants
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> Hi folks,
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>   Variants are an active topic of discussion within the GCD right now.  I
> see that you have a variantCover description field, which handles one of
> the most common cases.  However, there are a number of "variants" in GCD
> terminology.  Newsstand vs direct distribution.  Price variants.  Some
> publishers published versions of issues with ads and without ads.  Etc.
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>   If you want to handle more types of variants than just covers, I would
> recommend considering changing "variantCover" to "variantName" or something
> similar.  Depending on how much detail you want to get into, I can talk
> about how we're considering putting some more structure around variants, as
> collectors care a lot about some types (incentive covers) but less about
> others (newsstand vs direct).
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>   There is also the question of how to refer to an issue in general,
> without specifying a particular variant.  We haven't actually sorted that
> out- it's a topic from the past week or two.
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>   I'm not trying to get the schema to handle every little thing here, I'm
> just trying to raise topics that have caused us difficulty.  I'll happily
> drop any topic deemed out of scope.
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> thanks,
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> -henry
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