FactGrid:Prose fiction data model

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All properties for publications

• all FactGrid properties for publications (Q77484)

• bibliographical core data (Q100931)
• contexts of other publications (genre, stemma etc.) (Q100932)
• language and content (Q77485)
• financial details on an edition (Q100933)
• fiction and dubious histories (Q221312)

Basic requirements

1. Label — should exist in the Item's language and in English, 250 characters. Best solution: just the beginning of the title with [...] when you want to skip passages and imprint information in brackets: (Place: Publisher, Year).
2. Description — again in the Item's language and in English: 250 characters, needed to individualise the item
3. Alias — use this for short cuts, state the common focus words like "Robinson Crusoe".
4. instance of (P2) — printed publication Item:Q20
5. title page transcript (P5) — see Gerhard Dünnhaupt for best practice, use | for line break and [rule], [vignette], [publisher's signet], [line of typographical ornaments] for common graphical elements
6. type of publication (144) — usually "book publication" Item:Q14235 or "installment of a volume" Item:Q14234"
7. part of (8) — to state the set in which this is a volume.
8. research projects that contributed to this data set (P131) — link to your project so that the text becomes part of the body you are exploring.

Locating the title and linking digital editions

1. holding institution (329) — the library that has a copy which you can describe with particular sub statements:
2. Qualifier shelf mark (10)
3. Qualifier exlibris (413)
4. Qualifier 'bookbinding by (413)
5. Qualifier 'with manuscript notes by (352)
6. online digitisation (138) — you can also link specifically:
7. Google Books ID (525)
8. MDZ ID (526) — to link into Bavarian State Library digitisations
9. VD16 ID (368) — "Verzeichnis deutscher Drucke 16"
10. VD17 ID (369) — "Verzeichnis deutscher Drucke 17"
11. VD18 ID (370) — "Verzeichnis deutscher Drucke 18"
12. PPN ID (P346) — persistent identifier for data sets of the German GBV library association
13. listed in (124) — to refer to bibliographies and catalogues that noted the object
14. online transcript (69) — state the URL of an online e-text
15. instance of (2) — lost object Q5
16. Qualifier cause of loss (P347) — e.g. "war damage"
17. last holding archive of the lost object (P348) — to state the last institution that had the (missing) object.
18. indication the object existed (52) — to indicate how we know the Item existed.

Describing the Object

1. language (P18) — e.g. "German", "English"
2. wider field of genres (P122) — prose fiction Item:Q195135
3. format (P122) — folio, quarto etc.
4. height (P122) — in a portrait format the longer edge
5. width (P60) — in a portrait format the shorter edge
6. depth, thickness (P61) — see illustration
7. number of pages/ leafs/ sheets (P107) — the property will demand a number and a unit (e.g. sheet, page)
8. writing surface (P480) — in documents e.g. parchment, paper etc.

Material quality

1. collation (P543) to state the individual parts of a book from title page and preface to index
2. Qualifier page(s) (P54) — e.g. 3-9 as a page range under the component "preface"

Title page and responsibilities

1. 'author (P21) — state who actually wrote the object in question. If you only have a pseudonym create a "real" person for the user of this pseudonym lite "Author 'Adamantes', 1716".
2. author as (misleadingly) stated (P20) — give the information that is actually stated and create Items for pseudonyms as such, if needed.
3. co-author (P511) — for an author who contributed to a work
4. translated by (P24) — to state people who brought a text into another language
5. place of publication (without fictitious information) (P241) — the place of publication to our best knowledge, usually stated correctly in the imprint. Use P240 if you assume that im given publishing place is actually misleading
6. place of publication as misleadingly stated (P240) — e.g. "Cologne" or "Pampelune" in fictitious imprints
7. Qualifier literal statement (P35) string input for the exact spelling in.
8. type of work (standardised) (121) — Use this property to organise works according to types of production
9. type of work (as stated) (P4) — to state a self-classification in the respective language
10. Qualifier literal statement (P35) string input for an odd spelling.
11. prospective audience (573) — to note specific audiences addressed
12. type of title focus (572) — For example, a person, an event, a moral can be in the foreground. If there is more than one information, add successively under P499 qualifiers

Imprint information

1. printed by (207) — to name the company that printed a publication
2. published by (206) — the company or person publishing the item
3. published in (64) — refers to another publication in which this title appeared
4. publisher as misleadingly stated (544) — e.g. Pierre Marteau, Cologne

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1. Quality of author identification Property:P561
2. Quality of place identification Property:P562
3. Quality of publisher identification Property:P564
4. Quality of date information Property:P563

the following Items can serve as statements

1. "transparently stated" Item:Q221316
2. "obviously misleading statement" — Item:Q221317
3. "misleading but plausible statement" — Item:Q221318
4. "without statement" — Item:Q221319
5. "states where sold, instead of specifying the place of production" — Item:Q221320 e.g. "Frankfurt und Leipzig" or just "London"
6. "publisher hides behind partners" — Item:Q221321 to state so called "trade publishers" who would act as front men in dubious publications.

Preface

1. preface by (179) — to state the author of the preface to a publication

Dedication

1. publishes (254) — state documents published in a book
2. publishing interval (292) — the publishing interval of a periodical

1. quoting (306) — to state text(s) that are quoted by the object in question
2. reviewing (308) — to list reviews in a journal etc.
3. self-statement on historicity / fictionality (565) — use especially on novels and dubious histories of the early modern period to note the integration into the fields of histories and romances
4. sets ordered (542) — to state the number of copies ordered in a subscription
5. subscribers (275) — to state people who subscribed e.g. on a book publication (complete lists should be rather generated and linked)
6. sujet (576) — to classify the plot of works of art and fictional texts
7. text opening, transcript (70) — to quote the opening of a text (that has no title)
8. things mentioned (256) — use widely for everything mentioned except people
9. topic (243) — the central object of a work
10. institutions mentioned wd:P232 state institutions mentioned in a document

Publishing history

1. originality of the item (115) — e.g. "first edition", "new edition", "translation", "abridgement"
2. preceding in stemma (233) — use conservatively to connect to preceding in genealogy or development
3. text source (311) — to state the specific text version used by an edition
4. translation of (63) — The work that was translated
5. answer on (65) — to state the text that triggered this reply
6. answered with (205) — the reply that answers the present item
7. begin of composition (39) — use this property if a document has been written over a longer period of time

1. collation (543) — to state the individual parts of a book from title page and preface to index
2. commissioned by (273) — for the person or institution who commissioned a work
3. contribution (553) — to state specific contributions (e.g. introduction) to a compound work
4. contributor (410) — to name those who contributed to a work

date as stated (96) — Qualifier for P106 and P222

1. date of artefact (536) — e.g. to state the date of the manuscript copy (different from the date that may be given in the text)
2. date of composition (412) — use if a text for instance was composed far earlier than the copy extant
3. date of disputation (392) — Date in the public dissertation
4. date of publication according to imprint (222) — The standard date as taken from a title page. Use P96 if you know the exact day, week, or month of the publication
5. dedicatee (391) — the person who is being offered the dedication
6. events mentioned (532) — to refer to Items that have a P2-event statement
7. formed a set with (409) — to name objects that originally belonged together
8. installment of (441) — to name for instance the periodical of which this is an individual number

continuation of wd:P6 State e.g. the last number of a journal you are registering. wd:P7 continued by continued by wd:P7 to state for instance the next volume of a book wd:P6 continuation of

Content

1. protagonists who also appear in other works (567) — to name people who appear in different works (novels, plays, paintings)
2. quality / occupation of the central protagonists (569) — property especially for novels and plays
3. Prospective audience P573 — to state who is specifically addressed as readership
4. Reception promises (literal) (P570) — to mark the advertised reading gratification
5. Reception promises (standardised) (P571) — to mark the advertised reading gratification with a statement that will be valid in all the languages used on FactGrid
6. Dedicatee (P391) — to name the person(s) addressed in the dedication
7. Reported event (P19) — to name events portrayed in the text
8. 'events mentioned' (532) — to refer to Items that have a P2-event statement
9. Begin of events reported (P545) — to date the beginning of a historical narrative
10. End of events reported (P46) — to date the end of a historical narrative
11. places of action (566) — property to be used especially on novels and plays
12. Qualifier: place as (misleadingly) stated
13. Protagonists who also appear in other works (P567) — to name protagonists who also appear in other works of art and fiction
14. persons mentioned (P33) — to state other persons mentioned in a text, for instance rivaling authors
15. Quality / occupation of the central protagonists (P569) — to state the social status of the protagonists
16. genre (568) — to note a wider tradition of works in which similar sujets are treated with the same techniques
17. sujet (P576) — to state common stories of fictional texts
18. topic (P576) — the central object of a work
19. things mentioned (P256) — use widely for everything mentioned except people
20. texts mentioned (P116) — to state open references to other texts
21. inter-textual allusions (574) — to state implicit references to other texts; use P116 for other texts that are actually mentioned
22. quoting (306) — to state text(s) that are quoted by the object in question
23. digest in English (75) — use this to give a short digest of the text in English
24. digest in German (72) — use this to give a short digest of the text in German

Fictions as part of the historical production

The integration into the historical, apparent in practically all the contemporary book catalogues, came in two opposing directions — to the left and to the right of the following spectrum. Authors and publishers could either pretend to offer nothing but "romantic fictions", "feigned histories" — with publications that smelled of a concealed deeper truth. Keys were often published separately to trigger the scandalous exposures. The alternative came with titles that defended the historicity of the strangely unbelievable account. Both options depended on a centre of fictional titles that would be be read as such. Here the authors observed a tension between "high", "heroic" performances and "low" "satirical" sujets (not to be confused with the tensions between elegant books of the belles lettres and the cheap production of popular chap books).

A central production existed in the heart of this spectrum: The production of modern "novels" that would avoid the stereotypes of the heroic and the satirical genres. It is this the centre that propagated the term "novel" in English with its alternative of "intrigues" rather than "adventures":

items to be used on P565		Item:Q221324 Heroical Romances: Fénelon's Telemach (1699)
Q221322 Sold as romantic inventions, read as true histories of public affairs: Manley's New Atalantis (1709)	Q221323 Sold as romantic inventions, read as true histories of private affairs: Menantes' Satyrischer Roman (1706)	Q221325 Classics of the novel from the Arabian Nights to M. de La Fayette's Princesse de Clèves (1678)	Q221327 Sold as true private history, risking to be read as romantic invention: Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719)	Q221323 Sold as true public history, risking to be read as romantic invention: La Guerre d'Espagne (1707)
		Q221326 Satirical Romances: Cervantes' Don Quixote (1605)

Exchange and Development

1. reviewed in (135) — state the publication in which this has been reviewed
2. reviewing (308) — to list reviews in a journal etc.

The options did not really disappear; they live on in the spheres of genre-driven "popular fictions" with their broad range from sex and pornography to crime, fantasy and espionage in highest political spheres. The irresponsibility of the entire sphere disappeared, however, in the light of the critical appraisal which secondary discourses began to offer to a new "high" field of works of new "literary merits". The critical discourses whicch pushed fiction, plays and poetry into the sphere of serious "literature" focused on a new tension between reality and art and demanded a singular and provocative perspective which only true artists could offer. The ensuing debates made it profitable for fiction to be published as fiction — with a short title and the words "a novel", that would automatically call for a critical appraisal of authorial effort to transform reality into a work of art — so the fundamental descandalisation. The new scandal would be one within the sphere of "great literary works" and "finest works of art", so the strategic move that ended the previous debates of fiction in the middle of the historical production. "National literatures" emerged to form national debates; a "low" and "trivial" production would continue the success of the early modern market and serve as the backdrop against which true literature would have to show its merits.

This is more a development to be shown in a wider context of secondary debates discovering early modern prose fiction as an interesting object to discuss — between the 1750s and the 1850s.

Stating Research

1. autopsy by (411) — to state those who saw a document or object