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 any section of a publication that is of specific interest in your research — it might be an article in a journal or an advertisement in a news paper. 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:

• 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 P64 "published in" and P254 "publishes" respectively.

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:

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

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.

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).

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.

• P2 "instance of" — Q20 "Print publication"
• P144 "type of publication"

• 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")

Articles

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