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 Items on each article, advertisement, preface or section of your specific interest. State
- P2 "instance of" — Q20 "Print publication"
- P144 "type of publication" — Q14238 "contribution to a publication"
- P64 "published in" — state here the publication in which this contribution appeared and qualify with page references
- 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:
The two properties to connect the Items and the publications are here again P64 "published in" to use on the document and P254 "publishes" on the side of the publication in which this Item made its print appearance.
Editions of books
We are looking here at "self-standing" print publications that can be bought in individual copies of the edition referenced with the item. (We are not looking at single copies). Properties like the number of printed copies can mark the entire edition. You can still spot individual spot copies of that edition with references to holding institutions or owners you can identify.
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.
Description, Segmentation, Collation
People involved: Author, Translator, etc.
Content
Independent Publications with various contributions
Model case:
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.