FactGrid:Print publications data model

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The Print Publications data model is the basic instruction for

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

Articles, advertisements etc. — published in a (self-standing) print publication

Individual articles published in a collective volume, journal or newspaper

You can open Items on any section of a publication — it might be an article in a journal or an advertisement in a news paper. State:

1. instance of (P2) — print publication (Q20)
2. type of publication (P144) — contribution to a publication (Q14238)
3. published in (P64) — state here the publication in which this contribution appeared and qualify with page references
4. genre standardised (P121) — to state what kind of contribution this is (article, advertisement, document...)

Archival 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 and the publications are here again published in (P64) on the side of the document and publishes (P254) to make the respective statement on the publication.

Editions of books

We are looking here at print publications, the entire edition with its specific print run — not at single copies nor at "works" like "Robinson Crusoe" or the "Iliad" as they appear in various editions and translations. Ay new edition edition, even if of the same design as the previous, should make a new Item in this group. Each of these Items should have the following statements:

1. instance of P2 — Print publication (Q20)
2. type of publication (P144) — book publication (Q10517)

External identifiers

If you are not interested in using the full load of bibliographic details in further searches, just state an external identifier into a data base that gives all further details. Good identifiers for early modern books are the ESTC, the VD catalogues, the STCN etc. Valuable general library identifiers are the PPN numbers or the ISBN.

Responsibilities

1. author (P21) — state who actually wrote the object in question.
2. author as (misleadingly) stated (P20) — give the information that is actually stated.
3. probable identification (P120) — if you want to propose a specific identification. Set a note (P106) to state your reasons.
4. contributor (P511) — e.g. an author who added an introduction
5. Qualifier: contribution (P553) — to state specific contributions (e.g. introduction) to a compound work
6. translated by (P24)
7. edited by (P176) — if someone is offering a new presentation of the text
8. commissioned by (P273) — for the person or institution who commissioned a work
9. subscribers (P275) — to state people who subscribed e.g. on a book publication (complete lists should be rather generated and linked)
10. Qualifier number of sets ordered (542) — to state the number of copies ordered in a subscription
11. dedicatee (P391) — the person who is being offered the dedication
12. place of publication (without fictitious information) (P241) — the place of publication to our best knowledge
13. place of publication as misleadingly stated (P240) — e.g. "Cologne" or "Pampelune" in fictitious imprints
14. Qualifier literal statement (P35) string input for the exact spelling
15. date of publication according to imprint (P222) — The standard date as taken from a title page.
16. precise date of publication (P96) — use this statement if you now the precise day, week or season of the publication
17. Qualifier precision of date (P467) — to determination the exactness of the previous
18. printed by (P207) — to name the company that printed a publication
19. published by (P206) — the company or person that is known to have published the item
20. publisher as misleadingly stated (P544) — e.g. Pierre Marteau, Cologne

Content

• genre standardised (P121) — to state what kind of Book this is (novel, monograph etc.)

Books with with various contributions

Model case:

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

Books with several volumes

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.

Serial publications, periodicals

Newspapers, journals, term catalogues etc.

Separate between the newspaper or journal in its entire phase of existence (the topic of this section) and the specific instalment of a number in the series (treated under the headline Individual issues of a periodical|Individual issues of a periodical):

1. instance of (P2) — Print publication (Q20)
2. instance of (P2) — e.g. journal (Q10538) or newspaper (Q173699)
3. type of publication (P144)
4. — Periodical (Q14231, if the publication promised to appear in set intervals (even if these intervals have changed over the years or only a first issue appeared)
5. — Serial publication (Q14233), if the publication was just set to be continued without an end in sight like the "term catalogues" of the book trade, or a series of books published an academic context.
6. publishing interval (P292 — e.g. weekly, every Friday (Q40452), create items as you need them and note them on P2 as "intervals"
7. begin (P49) — to state the starting point of the enterprise
8. end (P50) — to state the end date of the enterprise

Responsibilities

See the previous section on book publications.

Four roles have to be kept apart, although they can also coincide - state the same name wherever they do:

1. editor (Property:P176) — the person(s) who collect the contributions and assume responsibility in the cooperation with the publisher
2. Qualifier begin (49) — to state when the editorship started
3. Qualifier end (50) — to state when the editorship ended
4. team (Property:P178) — to name the team that is working under the guidance of the (chief) editor(s)
5. Qualifier specific position (166) — to state individual roles in the team
6. author (P21) — state who actually wrote the object in question (many early modern journals were the work of a single author)
7. publisher (P206) — the company or companies that organised the printing and distribution of the organ

Individual issues of a periodical

The individual issue of a journal or newspaper stands on one level with the Edition of a book treated above. State:

1. instance of (P2) — print publication (Q20)
2. type of publication (P143) — installment of a periodical publication (Q14232)
3. published in (P64) — to state the journal or newspaper or series in whose series the issue appeared

Responsibilities

See again the previous section on book publications.

Articles

see above the section Articles, advertisements etc. — published in self standing print publications

Tracking copies

1. holding institution (P329) — the library that has a copy which you can describe with particular sub statements:
2. Qualifier shelf mark (P10)
3. Qualifier exlibris (P413)
4. Qualifier bookbinding by (P413)
5. Qualifier with manuscript notes by (P352)

If there is no further copy extant

Proceed as you would have done with the real object (i.e. state tat it is an issue of a journal or a book publication) but add the following statements:

1. instance of (P2) — lost object Q5
2. Qualifier last holding archive of the lost object (P348) — to state the last institution that had the (missing) object.
3. Qualifier cause of loss (P347) — e.g. "war damage"
4. Qualifier indication the object existed (P52) — to indicate how we know the Item existed.