Re: The subject of a course.

On 22 March 2016 at 09:02, Alan Paull <alan@alanpaull.co.uk> wrote:


> The about property should be used where a single word or short phrase is
> used,


The about property in Schema expects a Thing.  This means, as per other
CreativeWork types, it can contain a Text or the URI of a Thing that the
Course is about.


> I am presuming that use of subject vocabularies in this context is out of
> scope?
>

No it is not - as per the above, the URI of a subject is well within scope
- this is an oft used pattern for bibliographic material, referencing for
example Library of Congress Subject Headings.

~Richard.


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Barker [mailto:phil.barker@hw.ac.uk]
> Sent: 17 March 2016 14:26
> To: public-schema-course-extend@w3.org
> Subject: The subject of a course.
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>
> Hello again.
>
> So far we haven't said much about the first use case: finding a course
> that covers a subject that a person is interested in. Discussions before
> setting up the community community group have been around the use of the
> 'about' and 'educationalAlignment' properties of CreativeWork. Both of
> which have their place. I have tried to summarise how they are best used
> here:
>   https://www.w3.org/community/schema-course-extend/wiki/Subject_of_Course
>
> Any comments?
>
> Phil
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