Re: CourseInstance : MaximumCapacity ?

For demand forecasting, it's probably easier to have a waitlist with no
capacity; and then add CourseInstances to scale with demand as limited by
resource availability?

* "120 people signed up, so they added another section (CourseInstance)"

On Apr 12, 2016 9:27 AM, "Wes Turner" <wes.turner@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Apr 12, 2016 4:17 AM, "Phil Barker" <phil.barker@hw.ac.uk> wrote:
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> > On 11/04/2016 12:28, Wes Turner wrote:
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> >> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 4:18 AM, Phil Barker <phil.barker@hw.ac.uk>
wrote:
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> >>> Hello all.
> >>> I think I can see a place for both the status (open/full etc.) and
the size of the course instance. I think it does make a difference to know
whether you will be taught in a small group (~10) or a massive cohort
(~10,000).
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> >>> It also strikes me that neither of these are specific to course
instances, i.e. they would apply to any type of Event. I don't see anything
under Event at the moment which fits the bill.  There is
http://schema.org/EventStatusType which can be used for showing whether the
event is cancelled, postponed, rescheduled or scheduled: close but not the
the right values. Other than that there is, as part of Offer,
http://schema.org/availability which includes SoldOut, but seems more
geared to physical items. I don't see anything for event capacity except
maybe the http://schema.org/inventoryLevel property of Offer.
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> >>> I am inclined to think that we need one new property eventCapacity
(or just capacity if it is to be specific to courses), and an extension to
http://schema.org/EventStatusType
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> >> * eventCapacity
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> >> * Offer.inventoryLevel
> >> * Offer.availability < ItemAvailability >
> >> * Offer.availabilityStarts
> >> * Offer.availabilityEnds
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> >> * waitlist < WaitList([ (datetime, Person, status) ]) >
> >> * waitlistLength < Number >
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> UC:
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> * "There are 100 seats over n different CourseInstances and then there's
a FIFO wait list (of people waiting for a seat in any section
(CourseInstance))"
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> > Sorry Wes, I don't understand what you are trying to say here.
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> > Phil
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