Published Work

The Heart of the Serpent: Split book and story

2008-02-14T20:04:38.0018Z

The book is simply a collection that contains the story, but which also has the same name as the story. These should be split into separate topics.

Inconstant Moon: Split story and novel

2008-02-14T20:01:49.0014Z

The story and novel should be split into separate topics.

Nightfall: Split book and story

2008-02-14T19:44:14.0012Z

The story was expanded into a novel (with the help of an additional author); the two distinct works should have separate topics.

The Ugly Little Boy: Split novel and story

2008-02-14T19:36:57.0012Z

The short story by Asimov was expanded into a novel by Asimov and Silverberg. These should be separate topics.

Flowers for Algernon: Split story and novel

2008-02-14T19:30:44.0012Z

Because the story was rewritten and expanded into a novel, rather than simply having been republished in book form, this topic should be split in two: one with types short story, work of fiction, published work, written work, and award-winning work, and one with types book, work of fiction, and written work.

Flowers for Algernon: Split story and novel

2008-02-14T19:28:41.0012Z

Because the novel is an expansion of the story, and not simply a republication in book form, this topic should be split into two topics: one with types book, work of fiction, written work; and one with types short story, work of fiction, published work, and award-winning work.

Published Work: Horizontal list?

2007-12-11T17:15:56.0007Z

I think a horizontal list would make the information harder parse when there are multiple publications. This may all become moot soon anyway, since there's going to be a major redesign of the UI fairly soon, and I'm not sure how the horizontal/vertical lists will appear.

Published Work: Horizontal list?

2007-12-11T08:51:06.0000Z

The horizontal list is presented with a smaller font and grouped tighter than the vertical list. Depending on how much information is on a page, this type tends to get pushed off the page in a vertical list so that I must scroll to see it. Changing the order of objects in the list would not really solve this problem for me. I'm pretty new to how everything is organized here so maybe I'm missing something but a horizontal list seems like it would solve my problem.

Published Work: Horizontal list?

2007-12-11T06:44:53.0000Z

Why? I mean, the type admins may well consider it, but I was wondering what reason you had for asking.

Published Work: Horizontal list?

2007-12-11T05:17:26.0012Z

Would you mind setting the "published in/published as" property as a horizontal list?

Published Work: Multiple collaborators?

2007-10-13T19:08:54.0000Z

You wouldn't have to convert all the existing contributor information to the new indirect style. I see it more as a way to 'augment' existing types and objects with extra information. For certain objects, it might play a primary role in describing the contributors. But for things like books, with a fairly rigid structure of contributors (basically 'author') the fixed types would be much preferable. For example, if I wanted to say that a particular book had cover art by John Jones, I could attach that information easily and intuitively. A generic way of recording contributor information could also help for adding unstructured information to television and movie objects. Basically it would be a 'catch-all' type in most cases.

Published Work: Multiple collaborators?

2007-09-20T00:44:20.0007Z

This is an interesting suggestion. The main issue is that we would basically have to replace all authorship properties (author, editor, maybe poet, illustrator, etc.) and related types with one contributor property and type. There is some elegance to this, although we would also lose some value -- William Faulkner, for example, would no longer be of type "author" but of type "published work creator" or something like that. (Person is not a good choice because we really, really want to be able to see a list of works that people have written, illustrated, etc. and I don't think we'd want that property on all person topics.) This would be a major change to the schema, and would require a large amount of data migration, so I'd be reluctant to take it on without a lot more discussion. (Also unfortunately, fixing the myriad issues with the publishing domain is far down the list of things I have to fix!)

Published Work: Multiple collaborators?

2007-09-18T05:56:42.0005Z

I would very much like to record information about published works that have multiple contributors such as illustrators, writers, etc. I would like to record information about comic book graphic novels. The only aspect I want to dig into is the multi-creator aspect, not recording every issues of every series. I just want to record the "story" and the "creators". It seems like this format could also be used for any illustrated book, or for other multi-media-ish works. I have created a "Comic Book Contributor" in my own area, but I think it would be better to make this non-comic-book specific. I'd like to see a "Composite Work" or "Compound Work" type. This type would include a list of "Work Contributions". Each "Work Contribution" would be a triple of: (Role[Profession], Contributor[Person], Notes[Text]) It would be a generic way to record a persons contributions to a work. The types I created were named specifically for comic books, but they could easily apply to broader kinds of works.
http://www.freebase.com/view/domain/user/quenelle/default_domain

Published Work: Date

2007-08-29T17:50:10.0000Z

If you look at the article Entering the Contents of a Book or Periodical, it says:

If the publication is a periodical issue:
o Enter the periodical that the issue belongs to
o Enter the date of publication for the issue

If it's a book, although the article does not mention it, you'll see that Book type has the property "Copyright Date". You'll want to create a Book Edition for it, and one of the Book Edition's properties is "Publication Date". I hope that pretty much covers all cases?

Published Work: Date

2007-08-29T13:42:29.0012Z

No date?

Odyssey: Amazingly Influential and Descriptive Analysis of Life

2007-03-15T15:56:51.0006Z