- From: Tom Morris <tfmorris@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:25:06 -0400
- To: Aaron Bradley <aaranged@yahoo.com>
- Cc: "Olson, Peter" <polson@marvel.com>, "public-vocabs@w3.org" <public-vocabs@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CAE9vqEE_PC6U9qiKGbfA6hUKy3wPOOv_taahzA5KK=5pf3hueA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Aaron Bradley <aaranged@yahoo.com> wrote: > I haven't seen any work done for microdata specifically - or indeed seen > any normalized structured markup for comic books. But I think it would be > an interesting project. > > Because of the serial nature of comics, I think a fecund place to start > would be by looking at the TVEpisode, TVSeason and TVSeries types. That > also might prove interesting in looking at how to encode comic book-specific > contributor roles such as "inker" or "colorist." > > As you say, comics are currently modeled inconsistently. You probably know > of the following resources, but just in case here they are (not sure how > useful they'll be, but there is some meta encoding work that has already > been done): > http://docs.comics.org/wiki/Current_Schema > http://www.cbml.org/cbmlTagSetDoc.html > There's also Google's http://www.freebase.com/view/comic_books which has a fairly rich schema with 24 types and a total of about 10K instances which illustrate how they can be used (e.g. http://www.freebase.com/view/en/marvel_universe) as well as a (small) community of collaborators. If nothing else, it might serve as a good starting point and source of modeling experience. Tom > ------------------------------ > *From:* "Olson, Peter" <polson@marvel.com> > *To:* public-vocabs@w3.org > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 18, 2011 9:03:26 AM > *Subject:* Comics > > Hi List - > Apologies if this is a re-post. An earlier attempt to post to the list > from this account seems to have died. > Has any previous work been done on specifying a class for comic books (and > comic series) as an extension of the Creative Work model? If not, we’d > definitely be interested in drafting a standard. Comics are modeled highly > inconsistently across the net right now and making them more generally > discoverable is very important to my company. > - Peter > > ****************************************************************************** > Nothing contained in this e-mail shall (a) be considered a legally binding > agreement, amendment or modification of any agreement with Marvel, each of > which requires a fully executed agreement to be received by Marvel or (b) be > deemed approval of any product, packaging, advertising or promotion > material, which may only come from Marvel's Legal Department. > > ****************************************************************************** > THINK GREEN - SAVE PAPER - THINK BEFORE YOU PRINT! > > > > >
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