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An OWL ontology and RDF metadata vocabulary for describing comic books and comic book collections.
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Page Types additions and questions #37

Open elkym opened 3 years ago

elkym commented 3 years ago

An ordinary page within a comic might be described as a 1-page spread, I imagine, but perhaps there is reason to include a regular page?

In addition, study of comics as artifacts might include an "advertisement page" or something similar-- most comics ads are full pages, and even if they are not-- can a page be labeled as more than one type?

Lastly, would some foldouts simply extend the standard 2-page spread into a 3 or 4 page spread, or similar. However, other foldouts are more complex, and unfold top to bottom. Is this currently notable? I cannot bring to mind comic book examples at the moment. (Although I do have copies of The Lord of the Rings that contain foldout maps (I think they're a 3x3 fold that collapses to about 6.5"x10", expanding to a total size of 20" by 30".)

seanpetiya commented 3 years ago

Great questions. I think we can assume a single cbo:Page is any type of page: letters, art, etc. (or sequential vs. non-sequential, as in part of the visual story or sequence, being the best distinction I can think of at the moment), because the definition is "One or more pages in a comics document". [1]

With this definition in mind, I think a "page" description can be composed of multiple pages, and used to describe various types of spreads; two-page spreads, gatefold covers, etc. If a page description contains two pages, I think we could make the inference that it is a two-page spread or use the cbo:pageType property on the parent node explicitly to identify the type of page it is. There are a couple of values or individuals defined for the range of cbo:pageType, but we can certainly expand those options or search out another vocabulary to recommend [2]. I bet AAT would have some good terms to use [3], and not a bad alignment project similar to Wikidata/Schema.

Here's an example of what the description of a two-page cover spread might look like:

...
    <rdf:Description rdf:about="#CoverPage">
        <cbo:pageType rdf:resource="http://comicmeta.org/vocab/CoverPage"></cbo:pageType>
        <cbo:pageType rdf:resource="http://comicmeta.org/vocab/Spread"></cbo:pageType>
        <cbo:page>
            <rdf:Description rdf:about="#CoverPage1">
            </rdf:Description>
        </cbo:page>
        <cbo:page>
            <rdf:Description rdf:about="#CoverPage2">
            </rdf:Description>
        </cbo:page>
    </rdf:Description>
...

[1] https://comicmeta.org/cbo/Page.html [2] https://comicmeta.org/cbo/PageType.html [3] https://www.getty.edu/vow/AATFullDisplay?find=double+page&logic=AND&note=&english=N&prev_page=1&subjectid=300207360