RE: Itemprop for person

This is the discussion that goes on in the library cataloging standards group - that crops up when a new batch of catalogers are trained and are surprised by the "rules".


Casper the friendly ghost - fictional to some, a real ghost to others.
Lassie - the dog - a real dog - actually played by multiple canines.

I like the idea of a person is a person who is fictional vs taking a "fake personality" and making it a "thing".

We have a linked data project in the works with FAKE Botanists. 

So Richard, are you saying it would be person (is fictional) - under "Thing"?

Suzanne


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-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Wallis [mailto:richard.wallis@oclc.org] 
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 4:15 PM
To: Dawson, Laura; public-schemabibex@w3.org
Subject: Re: Itemprop for person

In the Schema.org world the 'Thing' class is what every other class inherits properties from, so a Person, an Organization, a Book, a Product, are all Things.

~Richard. 


On 08/11/2012 16:12, "Dawson, Laura" <Laura.Dawson@bowker.com> wrote:

> Is a fictional character a person or a thing?
> 
> Oooh, philosophy! "What is the nature of a thing?"
> 
> Laura Dawson
> Product Manager, Identifiers
> Bowker
> laura.dawson@bowker.com
> ________________________________________
> From: Richard Wallis [richard.wallis@oclc.org]
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 4:07 PM
> To: Dawson, Laura; public-schemabibex@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Itemprop for person
> 
> The more I think about it, the more inclined I am to suggest that this 
> is a suggested new property for 'Thing' - most any type of thing you 
> describe could be fictional.
> 
> ~Richard
> 
> 
> On 08/11/2012 15:55, "Dawson, Laura" <Laura.Dawson@bowker.com> wrote:
> 
>> I like this very much!
>> 
>> Laura Dawson
>> Product Manager, Identifiers
>> Bowker
>> laura.dawson@bowker.com
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Richard Wallis [richard.wallis@oclc.org]
>> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 3:48 PM
>> To: Dawson, Laura; public-schemabibex@w3.org
>> Subject: Re: Itemprop for person
>> 
>> Interesting thought ­ also applicable for Organization (such as 
>> Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry)
>> 
>> ~Richard.
>> 
>> On 08/11/2012 15:35, "Dawson, Laura" <Laura.Dawson@bowker.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Could we possibly add an ³isfictional² tag? To identify characters 
>> (such as Sherlock Holmes)? Some fictional characters will eventually 
>> have ISNIs and we¹ll need to structure data around them.
>> 
>> Laura Dawson
>> Product Manager, Identifiers
>> Bowker
>> Land: (908) 219-0082
>> Cell: (917) 770-6641
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
>

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