RE: Some Draft SchemaBibEx Proposals

It's worth noting that Schema.org has a multitude of theories about
handling ISBN. 

- http://schema.org/Book has 'isbn' property
- http://schema.org/Offer and http://schema.org/Product have 'gtin13'
property
- http://schema.org/Product uses "isbn:123-456-789" as an example for
its "productID" property

Their current method lacks theory.

Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Wallis [mailto:richard.wallis@oclc.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 2:09 PM
> To: Tom Morris
> Cc: Laura Dawson; Karen Coyle; public-schemabibex@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Some Draft SchemaBibEx Proposals
> 
> Tom,
> On 16/01/2013 18:43, "Tom Morris" <tfmorris@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > It probably belongs to a block of identifiers of a certain size
which
> > may have a history of ownership transfer and an expiration date and
> > all sorts of other administrivial detail, but surely that's of
> > vanishingly small interest to someone who's just trying to uniquely
> > identify a book (edition).
> >
> > Note also that schema.org's Product.gtin13 property includes all
> > ISBN-13 codes (and ISBN-10 codes which have been translated).
> >
> 
> In a few cases - Book:isbn & Product:gtin13 - Schema has accounted for
> standard numbers/references.  However this approach will not scale for
> all the many schemes that are used to assign these things.
> 
> I am suggesting that there is a need for a way to describe a standard
> number/reference/identifier its type and any other useful information
> associated with it.
> 
> I believe it has broad relevance beyond the bibliographic community.
> 
> Richard.
> 
> 
>

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