- From: Wes Turner <wes.turner@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 17:30:11 -0600
- To: Richard Wallis <richard.wallis@dataliberate.com>
- Cc: Phil Barker <phil.barker@hw.ac.uk>, public-schema-course-extend@w3.org
- Message-ID: <CACfEFw-g3JXZJmCd0kNFMNj8zAwNoD=iqmSX6d_iMYu55coU8Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Richard Wallis < richard.wallis@dataliberate.com> wrote: > There is no problem having several data elements/entities on a single web > page using schema.org markup. Each can be given its own unique URI > identifier and be related to any other data element including the main item > on the page. > > There is no required relationship between individual descriptions and > identifiers for things and the number of web pages they are displayed upon. > Practically, is there a schema.org/WebPage with a +mainContentOfPage < schema.org/WebPageElement, OfferCatalog>? The closest catalog pattern I'm aware of here is https://schema.org/OfferCatalog Are there nested OfferCatalogs for Courses and CourseOffers: - [ ] An offer catalog for Course(s) - [ ] An offer catalog for Course.offers (which is not of native type ItemList/OfferCatalog)? [...] And then, this suggests a need for CourseSpecialization / CourseProgram / Degree Program / "CredentialProgram" > > > > > Richard Wallis > Founder, Data Liberate > http://dataliberate.com > Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/richardwallis > Twitter: @rjw > > On 8 February 2016 at 16:06, Phil Barker <phil.barker@hw.ac.uk> wrote: > >> Thanks for adding http://www.fife.ac.uk/student/courses/course/HCACC to >> the list of examples. It looks like a good one for working up examples. I >> agree that we should avoid requiring a separate page for each course >> offering, and in this case I would hope that the rows of the table at the >> bottom could be marked up as offerings. >> >> Phil >> >> >> On 07/02/2016 14:15, Developer, SleepingDog wrote: >> >>> Hi all >>> >>> The College where I work has recently refreshed its course offerings, >>> and the course events now appear in Google search results again as >>> described in: >>> >>> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind1505&L=WEBSITE-INFO-MGT&P=R3089&1=WEBSITE-INFO-MGT&9=A&J=on&d=No+Match%3BMatch%3BMatches&z=4 >>> >>> If, for example, you search Google for hnc accounting: >>> >>> https://www.google.co.uk/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=hnc+accounting&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&gfe_rd=cr&ei=40y3VvKrF9eFaKWkk1g >>> >>> you may see a result which lists two events (out of three): >>> >>> Pages - Course Details : HNC Accounting - Fife College >>> www.fife.ac.uk/student/courses/course/HCACC >>> This course is designed for those wishing to take up a career in >>> Accounting and Financial Administration within a range of organisations. >>> Both HNC and HND ... >>> 29 Aug 2016 - 23 Jun 2017 Full Time Halbeath Campus ... >>> 31 Aug 2016 - 21 Jun 2017 Evenings only and ... St Brycedale >>> Campus … >>> >>> What we call a course is an abstraction with the same title, >>> description, content, entry requirements and so forth which can contain >>> zero or more offerings which may have different start- and end-dates, modes >>> of attendance, locations and so on (the XCRI information model). >>> >>> It makes sense to us to publish one page for this “abstract course” >>> which contains a table of offerings. >>> >>> Now, I am not clear about the direction of discussion in this group, but >>> it is possible that it may be tending to a separate web page for each >>> “concrete course”, that is a separate page for each: >>> >>> "educational course [as] defined as a sequence of events and/or creative >>> works which aims to build knowledge, competence or ability of learners” >>> >>> which would not be very efficient for our kind of College, which often >>> runs multiple instances of the same “abstract course” simultaneously, in >>> different locations (campuses, regions) or different years of entry. >>> >>> This might also involve repeating identical content on different web >>> pages, which I believe is contrary to search optimisation best practice. >>> >>> >>> Tavis Reddick >>> >>> >> -- >> Phil Barker @philbarker >> LRMI, Cetis, ICBL http://people.pjjk.net/phil >> Heriot-Watt University >> >> Workflow: http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/~philb/workflow/ >> >> >> >> ----- We invite research leaders and ambitious early career researchers >> to join us in leading and driving research in key inter-disciplinary >> themes. Please see www.hw.ac.uk/researchleaders for further information >> and how >> to apply. >> >> Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity >> registered under charity number SC000278. >> >> >> >
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