Freebase Staffhttp://www.freebase.com/view/user/domain_administratorFreebase Atom Feed Generatorhttp://www.freebase.com/view/bookFreebase: Discussion about Publishing2009-12-20T04:56:10Zjeffhttp://www.freebase.com/view/user/jeff<p>You're making some good points, and I'm not quite sure how to best address them right now. But I think we might need to reconsider the relationship between books and translations (and therefore between translations and other kinds of works) now that we have so much more data and can see how it's being created and used.</p>http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000127c4429You're making some good points, and I'm not quite sure how to best address them right now. But I...Publishing: co-type as a book?2009-12-07T23:51:34.0020Zjonhttp://www.freebase.com/view/user/jon<div><p>hmmm - if a user is using filtered views based on books that won awards (because they aren't a programmer and don't write queries - or don't know to use literature) they won't find it.</p>
<p>It also just seems counter-intuitive for a book award winning work to to not be a book.</p>
<p>What about the 60 or so other Beowulfs currently typed as books - are they all unique books or are many of them also translations?</p></div>http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000012791ddehmmm - if a user is using filtered views based on books that won awards (because they aren't a...Publishing: co-type as a book?2009-12-07T19:13:12.0021Zjeffhttp://www.freebase.com/view/user/jeff<div><p>It should show up in queries for awards -- use the award category "subject or discipline" property, and filter for "literature". One of the main reasons translations aren't books is that a Book Edition can only be an edition of one book; if Translations are Books, then the edition has to be an edition of two Books -- the original book and the translation. </p>
<p>There might be a case for making Translations also be Written Works, and delegating "Translator" from "Author"; there was a reason I didn't do it that way, but it might not pertain any more -- I'll have to see if I can find my notes.</p></div>http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000001278f8b5It should show up in queries for awards -- use the award category "subject or discipline" property,...Publishing: co-type as a book?2009-12-07T18:59:20.0006Zjonhttp://www.freebase.com/view/user/jon<div><p>I would be inclined to type this translation as a book but haven't yet as that seems contrary to the use of the translation type. However, this particular translation has won several book awards but won't show up in any book award queries or views that are book based without adding the book type.</p>
<p>Thoughts from publishing admins or others?</p></div>http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000126df70dI would be inclined to type this translation as a book but haven't yet as that seems contrary to...Publishing: co-type as a book?2009-12-07T01:49:45.0017Z