FactGrid:Print publications data model

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Sample items (German, regrettably)

Book

[Dohlhoff, Gunther H. / Schneefuß, Walter:] Handbuch der Gemeinschaftspflege. Herausgegeben von Gunther H. Dohlhoff und Walter Schneefuß. 2. Aufl. München: Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Franz Eher Nachf., 1939. 184 S.: mit Abb., 1 Taf., 1 Bl. 8°. Lw.: 3,80. [1. Aufl. 1938] [Link]

• Item:Q504708

Book in a series, special edition of a journal

Böhme, Herbert: Die Losung. Ein Weihespiel (Der Appell, H. 4). München: Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Franz Eher Nachf., [1937]. 23 S. 8°. Kt.: -,20. [Link]

• Item:Q484922

Unser Reich. Sonderdruck: Der Reichsorganisationsleiter — Hauptschulungsamt der NSDAP. [Bearbeitung und Gestaltung: Amt für Schulungsbriefe im Hauptschulungsamt der NSDAP. Verantwortlich: Reichsamtsleiter F.H. Woweries]. (Der Schulungsbrief 8. Sonderdruck). Berlin: Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Franz Eher Nachf. [Zweigstelle], [1941]. 44 S.: mit Abb. 4°. Kt.: -,15. [Link]

• Item:Q505683

A journal or book series

Series

Der Appell. [Im Auftrage der Obersten SA.-Führung herausgegeben von der Abteilung Weltanschauung und kulturelle Dienstgestaltung. Bearbeitet von Obersturmführer Herbert Böhme]. München: Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Franz Eher Nachf., 1937-1939. 8°. Kt.: -,20 (Heft). [Link]

• Item:Q481221

Journal

Unser Wille und Weg. Monatsblatt der Reichspropagandaleitung der NSDAP. Hrsg.: Dr. Goebbels. München: Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Franz Eher Nachf., monatl.: 1.1931 – 3.1939, 9.1939 – 11.1941 [?]. 8°. Einzelnummer Ausg. A: -,20; Ausg. B: -,30. (Ausg. B ab 1939 mit Beilage: Aufklärungs- und Redner-Informationsmateriall der Reichpropagandaleitung der NSDAP und des Reichspropagandaamtes der Deutschen Arbeitsfront (München: Eher, 1934-1944).) [Link]

• Item:Q481253

Responsibilities: authors, publishers and others

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 (P224) — 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 know 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

To assess the responsibility of the publication

1. Context information about (Property:P828) to state author, publishing enterprise, translator for further evaluation
2. Qualifier Transparency (Property:P829) to state the transparency of the information with statements like Mentioned without obfuscation (Q221316) / Obviously a pseudonym (Q221317) / Misleading but plausible statement (Q221318) / Stated only halfway (Q402155)

Description, Segmentation, Collation

1. Language (P18) — e.g. "German", "English"
2. Format (P122) — "folio", "quarto" etc.
3. height (P122) — see illustration
4. Width (P60) — see illustration
5. Depth, thickness (P61) — see illustration
6. Number of pages/ leaves/ sheets (P107) — the quick statement, just the numeral of the total number and your unit ("sheet", "page", "leaf")
7. Collation [string] (P577) — to copy a catalogue statement of the books segmentation
8. Segmentation (P543) — if you are interested in the breakdown of the individual components from frontispiece, title page and preface to index
9. Writing surface (P480) — "paper"

Content

See also the data model for prose fiction for its far more specific statements

1. Type of work (standardised) (P121) — Use this property to organise works according to types of production
2. Type of work (as stated) (P582) — to state a self-classification in the respective language
3. Qualifier literal statement (P35) string input for an odd spelling.
4. Target group (P573) — prospective audience, to note specific audiences addressed
5. Topic (P243) — the central object of a work
6. Genre/sujet (P576) — to note a tradition of works in which similar sujets are treated with the same techniques
7. Events mentioned (P532) — to refer to Items that have a P2-event statement
8. Begin of events reported (P45) — to date the beginning of a historical narrative
9. End of events reported (P46) — to date the end of a historical narrative
10. Persons mentioned (P33) — to state other persons mentioned in a text, for instance rivalling authors
11. Things mentioned (P256) — use widely for everything mentioned except people
12. Institutions mentioned (P232) — state institutions mentioned in a document
13. Texts mentioned (P116) — to state open references to other texts
14. Inter-textual allusions (P574) — to state implicit references to other texts; use P116 for other texts that are actually mentioned
15. Quoting (P306) — to state text(s) that are quoted by the object in question
16. Digest (P724) — use this to give a short digest of the text

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 (P318)
5. Qualifier with manuscript notes by (P352)

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.

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(s) (Property:P176) — the persons 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.

Description, Segmentation, Collation

See the respective section on book publications.

Articles

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

Works

Someone praising Homer's Iliad is usually not referring to a specific edition but to Homer's work (even if he or she never read the original). State

1. instance of (P2) — "work" (Item:Q14239)
2. type of work (P121) — "work in language" (Item:Q14239)
3. primary source (P121) — to refer to earliest sources extant, e.g. a first documented edition or a manuscript

Use all the other statements you are using on documents and publications for information about dates, authors or content.

The property work (P590) is available to state the work context on the side of publications.

Publishing history

1. originality of the item (P115) — e.g. "first edition", "new edition", "translation", "abridgement"
2. first published (P578) — to refer to the edition on top of the stemma
3. preceding in stemma (P233) — use conservatively to connect to preceding in genealogy or development
4. Qualifier connection in stemma (P233) — to state what is creating a difference in the Item
5. translation of (P63) — The work that was translated
6. begin of composition (P39) — use this property if a document has been written over a longer period of time
7. date of composition (P412) — use if a text for instance was composed far earlier than the copy extant
8. continuation of (P6) — state the preceding volume
9. continued by (P7) — state the next volume

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.

Exemplary Items

• [Daniel DeFoe,] The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, vol. 1, 4th edition (London: W. Taylor, 1719).
• Reinhard Markner/ Monika Neugebauer-Wölk/ Hermann Schüttler (eds.), Die Korrespondenz des Illuminatenordens, Vol. 1: 1776-1781 (Tübingen, 2005).