{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/comicmeta/ComicBookOntology/issues/11","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/comicmeta/ComicBookOntology/issues/11/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/comicmeta/ComicBookOntology/issues/11/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/comicmeta/ComicBookOntology/issues/11/events","html_url":"https://github.com/comicmeta/ComicBookOntology/issues/11","id":128055053,"number":11,"title":"Couple things I noticed/Questions","user":{"login":"NGanin","id":7544342,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7544342?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/NGanin","html_url":"https://github.com/NGanin","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/NGanin/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/NGanin/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/NGanin/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/NGanin/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/NGanin/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/NGanin/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/NGanin/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/NGanin/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/NGanin/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2016-01-22T00:39:03Z","updated_at":"2016-01-25T01:44:13Z","closed_at":null,"body":"When working with CBO here's what I came across that struck me as confusing/unclear\r\n\r\n1. I know this is fundamental...but according to Figure 26 on page 88 of your thesis, an issue is-a publication, a volume is-a publication a series is-a publication and a publication is-a comic.\r\n\r\nI'm not super clear though on how that whole thing shakes out. \r\n\r\nSome specific issue of Amazing Spider-Man, say 10. \r\n\r\nIssue: Amazing Spider-Man 10\r\nSeries: Amazing Spider-Man\r\nVolume: 1 \r\nPublication:\r\nComic:\r\n\r\nOr are the breadth of the terms Publication and Comic intended to convey that *any graphic art can be analyzed as a Comic (like treating a collective resource as a single Work or analyzing it analytically as 4 different Works [in FRBR terms]), and Publication covers anything having been published at any level of description.\r\n\r\n2. Follow up, in an ontology like this, do properties distribute down the heirarchy? That is, Publication has the property \"distributedBy\" which links a comic series to a distributor, so it seems I should be able to use it in a Series, but the property doesn't appear in Series.\r\n\r\n3. Speaking of Series...is there an intended difference between the properties \"dcterms:language\" and \"language\"?\r\n\r\n4. The property \"imprint\" is a property of Publisher, but can it also be a property of Series? That is, I have a comic series published by K.K. Publications, in the Gold Key imprint (example here: http://www.comics.org/issue/20119/) but when describing it, I can't put \"imprint\" as a property of Series.\r\n\r\n    <!-- Laredo -->\r\n    \r\n    <rdf:Description rdf:about=\"http://www.comics.org/series/1763/\">\r\n        <rdf:type rdf:resource=\"http://comicmeta.org/cbo/Series\"/>\r\n        <cbo:country rdf:resource=\"http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095330.html\"/>\r\n        <cbo:language rdf:resource=\"http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/eng\"/>\r\n        <cbo:publisher rdf:resource=\"http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50059055.html\"/>\r\n        <cbo:indiciaPublisher rdf:resource=\"http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89616660.html\"/>\r\n        <cbo:imprint rdf:resource=\"http://www.comics.org/brand/86/\"/> <!-- is this associating a comic series with an impint? -->\r\n        <cbo:format rdf:resource=\"http://comicmeta.org/vocab/ComicBook\"/>\r\n        <cbo:seriesTitle>Laredo</cbo:seriesTitle>\r\n        <cbo:seriesYear>1966</cbo:seriesYear>\r\n    </rdf:Description>\r\n\r\n5. I was hoping to be able to identify a first appearance of a universe object/person. While there is a property of 'appearance' on domain Comic, do you think it'd be possible to also have a property of *first* appearance?\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/comicmeta/ComicBookOntology/issues/comments/174369225","html_url":"https://github.com/comicmeta/ComicBookOntology/issues/11#issuecomment-174369225","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/comicmeta/ComicBookOntology/issues/11","id":174369225,"user":{"login":"seanpetiya","id":4074100,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4074100?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/seanpetiya","html_url":"https://github.com/seanpetiya","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/seanpetiya/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/seanpetiya/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/seanpetiya/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/seanpetiya/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/seanpetiya/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/seanpetiya/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/seanpetiya/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/seanpetiya/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/seanpetiya/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-01-25T01:44:13Z","updated_at":"2016-01-25T01:44:13Z","body":"Thanks for the comments, @NGanin. \r\n\r\nYou are correct in your assessment of the Ontology's Work model. Publication and Comic are increasingly abstract concepts, similar to the idea of abstraction present in FRBR. Using the additional levels of abstraction available in the model, any comic can be analyzed as a type of comics material, not just traditional publications (i.e. a comic published as a series, in a volume [manga, trade paperbacks], or individual issues). This is particularly useful when describing individual aspects of a comic work, such as the Story itself, or a Sequence, such as a strip or series of panels. The ontological definition of \"Comic\" here being purposefully broad so as to be inclusive of comic strips, web comics, comic books, and other types of sequential art that can be identified as a comic, either in whole (e.g. a comic book) or in part (e.g. a panel).\r\n\r\nThis also allows for individual authors to describe different aspects of the same Comic. One data author may focus on the publication properties of a comic book (i.e. the volume number, publication date), while another may focus on the content (i.e. the story, characters, etc.), and still another further complete the graph for a specific work by adding documentary aspects like detailing the letters section, or the advertisements found in a specific comic.\r\n\r\nIf we unpack your example of Amazing Spider-Man #10, you'll see we go from a specific example of a Spider-Man comic book, to a broader conceptualization of Spider-Man as a Work (or more precisely, a schema:CreativeWork) being composed of multiple publications, volumes, series, etc. (e.g. Spectacular Spider-Man, Web of Spider-Man, etc.). Not to mention all the non-comics material that we can relate to Spider-Man using other vocabularies.\r\n\r\nI will answer your follow-up questions in a separate comment..."}}