Anime/Manga

Manga Title: Number of volumes

2008-04-07T21:24:59.0007Z

Manga makes my head hurt. But I'd tend to agree that a value for "current number of issues" is not particularly valuable since, for active manga, the number is going to change all the time.

A manga/comic book/publishing reconciliation is probably in order. (Shudder!)

Manga Title: Number of volumes

2008-04-07T21:11:46.0000Z

I think, if I recall correctly, the original thought was that it was the number of volumes as of that moment. Basically, I was copying the wikipedia infobox since the goal was to load that data in. This whole schema probably needs refactoring to capture diferent releases of manga and the whole published work refactoring.

Your thoughts Jeff?

Anime Director: Including Person

2008-04-07T19:26:27.0000Z

Yes. Good catch; I've updated the schema.

Anime Director: Including Person

2008-04-05T22:32:05.0012Z

Should this include Person?

Manga Title: Number of volumes

2008-04-05T08:17:11.0007Z

I'd humbly suggest trying to model what you are looking for on sandbox, our testing area for our users and ourselves. Then creating it here on Freebase within a personal domain. You can easily use it in conjunction with what exists already in the Manga/Anime public domain.

As I said, I am unsure what was being modeled/attempted here. Remember we are still an Alpha-site and thus domains/types are still under development..,By us but more importantly, by you, community members.

We'll happily answer any questions, better yet, try one of our mail lists for even broader help/responses from a good number of fellow data-modeling enthusiasts (and admins as well).

Manga Title: Number of volumes

2008-04-04T20:42:51.0045Z

Well, that's not an unreasonable way to do it, but the situation is more complicated, since releases in different countries will sometimes have different numbers of volumes, re-releases do happen with either the same of different number of volumes, etc.

I'm just not sure that a simple dated integer is really going to capture any worthwhile information, or precisely what information it should capture.

It seems to me that it would be better/more accurate to create items for each published volume, and link them in. But that doesn't look to be possible... am I missing something?

Manga Title: Number of volumes

2008-04-04T19:29:00.0024Z

Eh...Fruits basket ended on Nov 2006, so 23 for the year 2006.

Manga Title: Number of volumes

2008-04-04T19:21:52.0005Z

I guess I don't understand the unique system of manga publications all that well (I like to watch...). I am not the administrator and there is no description/help (hint hint!)

So I do know that manga titles tend to first appear as part of a monthly/semi-yearly magazine publication schedule as chapters. The chapters are released as manga title containing usually one volume. Usually several volumes are published each year until the end of run of the manga.

So this property could be capturing how many titles at the specific time.

So for Fruits Basket there would be 23 volumes as of this date, April 2008? There will be more so it could be 25/26 volumes as of April 2009.

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For finished manga there could be re-publication in different sets of books, maybe combining several volumes into one book, thus a reduced number of titles, at a later date than the original run.

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All guesses on my part I'm afraid.

Manga Title: Number of volumes

2008-04-04T00:44:51.0007Z

If it should just contain a unique number, then is should it also not be changed from dated integer to just integer (since the date doesn't seem helpful, then).

Manga Title: Number of volumes

2008-04-03T23:36:07.0000Z

I believe it probably should be a unique number and thata it accepts multiple values is simply an oversight.

Manga Title: Number of volumes

2008-04-02T17:49:19.0000Z

I apologize for the duplication. Firefox is consistently crashing up attempting to create a discussion, and the discussions showed up blank when I restarted, so I assumed it had failed. Apparently, the discussions just don't show up instantly, therefore the duplication.

Manga Title: Number of volumes

2008-04-02T17:43:18.0005Z

How is this field intended to be used?

Manga Title: Number of volumes

2008-04-02T17:39:25.0012Z

I'm a little confused about this. Am I meant to enter the current number of volumes published, together with the current date? The field accepts multiple values, so should it contain a history of when volumes were published?

If it's the former, is that intended to show that the information may be out of date? If the latter, why not just create items for each volume and link to those, rather than merely offering the number of them?

Anime/Manga: ¿

2007-08-28T17:33:49.0007Z

I'm being re-prioritized yet again, so... soon. :)

Anime/Manga: ¿

2007-08-25T02:17:12.0012Z

wherefore art thou manga?

Anime/Manga: some new Anime/Manga types

2007-08-17T04:02:37.0011Z

I've had a couple of private types I've been working on that would fit in this group. They were originally titled 'Mecha Product' and 'Product Line' but I just renamed them 'Anime/Manga Product' and 'Anime/Manga Product Series'.