Re: Itemprop for person

Assuming that you define a ghost as a Person, yes.

Presuming that we lobbied successfully to add a Boolean 'isFictional'
property to the Schema.org Thing class any other class that inherits from
Thing could use it.

Check out the description of the Person class <http://schema.org/Person> 'A
person (alive, dead, undead, or fictional).' and you will see the five
properties inherited from Thing listed at the top.

~Richard.


On 08/11/2012 16:17, "Pilsk, Suzanne" <PilskS@si.edu> wrote:

> 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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