FactGrid:Print publications data model

The Print Publications data model is the basic instruction for

• printed materials from single sheets to books
• multi volume publications
• periodical publications

Dependent publications: articles, advertisements — sections in books and journals

Individual articles published in a collective volume

You can open here Items on each article. State

• P2 "instance of" — Q20 "Print publication"
• P144 "type of publication" — Q14238 "contribution to a publication"
• P64 "published in" to state the self-standing publication in which this contribution appeared
• P121 "genre standardised" to state what kind of contribution this is (article, advertisement, document...)

Primary documents published in books and journals

The model case ist here:

• Letter Johann Adam Weishaupt to Franz Anton von Massenhausen, Eichstätt, 1776-09-12

The two properties to connect the Items are again P64 "published in" to use on the document and P254 "publishes" to state on the publication in which this Item made its print appearance.

Self-standing publications: editions of books

A "self-standing" print publication can be bought in individual copies of that edition. We are here not looking at single copies but at the entire print run with details such as the number of copies printed of this particular publication or the date of this particular print run.

A new edition edition of the very same design makes a new Item in this group.

The object might appear in a set of books. If the set can only be bought together it creates one single item. If the volumes can be bought separately they will create different items.

Each of these Items should have the following statements:

• P2 "instance of" — Q20 "Print publication"
• P144 "type of publication" — Q10517 "book publication"
• P121 "genre standardised" to state what kind of contribution this is (novel, monograph etc.)

External identifiers

If you are not interested in given the full load of bibliographic details, as the book is not the object you are studying but merely a thing to refer to, just state an external identifier into a data base that gives all further details Good identifiers for early modern books are the ESTC in the case of English titles, the VD catalogues in the case of German titles, the STCN for Dutch titles etc.

Valuable library identifiers are the PPN numbers of many German libraries, or the ISBN in the case of modern books.

Independent Publications with various contributions

Model case:

• Reinhard Markner/ Monika Neugebauer-Wölk/ Hermann Schüttler (eds.), Die Korrespondenz des Illuminatenordens, Vol. 1: 1776-1781 (Tübingen, 2005).

Multi volume publications

There are strictly speaking two sorts of multivolume publications: Those that actually sold in different volumes, which could be bought separately and those that came as a single object which one could only buy in one pack.

• Treat volumes that could be bought separately as individual publications with an item for each volume.
• Treat volumes that could only be bought in one set as segments of the publication.