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
Articles, advertisements etc. — published in self standing print publications
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 print publications in the totality of an edition with its print run of numerous copies — not at single copies and not at works like "Robinson Crusoe" or "The Bible". A new edition edition of the very same design should make an new Item in this group. Create also just one item if the publication was only sold in a set of several volumes.
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
Books with 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.
Periodicals and serial publications
Newspapers, journals, term catalogues etc.
- Q14231 "Periodical" — if the publication promised to appear in set intervals (even if these intervals have changed over the years or only a first issue appeared)
- Q14233 "Serial publication" — if the publication was just set to be continued without an end in sight (like the "term catalogues" of the book trade)
- P121 "genre standardised" to state what kind of contribution this is (newspaper, journal etc.)
- P292 "publishing interval" — e.g. Q40452 "weekly, every Friday (create items as you need them and note them on P2 as "intervals")
Individual issues of a periodical
Articles
see above the section Articles, advertisements etc. — published in self standing print publications