Re: Issue variants

     *ashcan copy: comic book produced only for legal reasons or
promotional preview, rather than for full publication  *

You never stop learning things!

Wikidata *is* a good source of [canonical] URI identifiers - amongst
others.


Richard Wallis
Founder, Data Liberate
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On 5 October 2015 at 16:52, Young,Jeff (OR) <jyoung@oclc.org> wrote:

> I see that WikiData covers some of these terms.
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> https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4804740
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> https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q933530
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> Others could presumably be added as needed.
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> Wasn’t Schema.org considering the use of WikiData for enumerations awhile
> back?
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> Jeff
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> *From:* Tom Adamich [mailto:vls@tusco.net]
> *Sent:* Monday, October 05, 2015 11:45 AM
> *To:* 'Richard Wallis'
> *Cc:* hha1@cornell.edu; public-schemabibex@w3.org; shallphillips@naswa.org
> *Subject:* RE: Issue variants
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> …Sounds logical, Richard.
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> I’m not a comic book expert either; however, I do understand your attempt
> to establish the framework for enumeration within this particular type
> (using the comic book lexicon Henry references in his discussion).
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> Again, the ultimate goal being to enhance the search experience using
> targeted vocabulary familiar to the population(s) served.
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> Take care.
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> Tom
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> Tom Adamich, MLS
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> *From:* Richard Wallis [mailto:richard.wallis@dataliberate.com
> <richard.wallis@dataliberate.com>]
> *Sent:* Monday, October 5, 2015 11:35 AM
> *To:* Tom Adamich
> *Cc:* hha1@cornell.edu; public-schemabibex@w3.org; shallphillips@naswa.org
> *Subject:* Re: Issue variants
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> Not being an aficionado of comics, these look like an enumeration of
> issue types to me.
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> 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.
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> Richard Wallis
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> Founder, Data Liberate
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> http://dataliberate.com
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> Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/richardwallis
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> Twitter: @rjw
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> On 5 October 2015 at 12:16, Tom Adamich <vls@tusco.net> wrote:
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> 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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> Tom Adamich, MLS
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> President
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> Visiting Librarian Service
>
> 224 Chauncey Ave. N.W.
>
> P.O. Box 932
>
> New Philadelphia, OH 44663
>
> 330-364-4410
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> vls@tusco.net
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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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