Re: [schemaorg] Vocabulary for comics (#378)

Hi Jeff,

Belated reply... The mail and example confused me first. Upon returning to it today I see a bit better, but am still a bit lukewarm on having something that coul be a language of its own... Even though I also realize the role trick is a bit akin as what is implied by allowing usage of properties like dc:creator with literal or URIs. (a resource is rarely created by a literal of course, so the semantics of the property differ a bit depending on the usage).

Cheers,

Antoine

On 3/12/15 10:45 PM, Young,Jeff (OR) wrote:
> It was weird to me at first too and I'm sure it will get abused on the open web. OTOH, it transforms some extremely thorny problems into a simple mechanical indirection.
>
> I don't think in terms of "model" so much anymore. Schema.org feels more like a language now. Here's an example:
>
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/68401641/examples/daffodils_and_deprivation.ttl
>
> Jeff
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Antoine Isaac [mailto:aisaac@few.vu.nl]
>> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 5:26 PM
>> To: public-schemabibex@w3.org
>> Subject: Re: [schemaorg] Vocabulary for comics (#378)
>>
>> Hi Jeff,
>>
>> Thanks for the explanation!
>> I guess I'm still too biased by RDF modeling tradition...
>> I'm willing to accept that schema:member could be used to relate two
>> persons in one dataset, and to link a person to a role in another.
>> But it makes me shiver a bit when I see this sort of semantic difference in
>> two closely related triples. I.e schema:member between a person and a role
>> in one triple, and schema:member between a role and a person in the next
>> one!
>>
>> Antoine
>>
>> On 3/12/15 10:17 PM, Young,Jeff (OR) wrote:
>>> Antoine,
>>>
>>> As I understand it, this should be understood as "A4 is a member of A1....
>> and oh, by the way, I snuck in this Role node so I can say something more
>> about the 'member' relationship ".
>>>
>>> Here's the description of schema:Role:
>>>
>>> "Represents additional information about a relationship or property. For
>> example a Role can be used to say that a 'member' role linking some
>> SportsTeam to a player occurred during a particular time period. Or that a
>> Person's 'actor' role in a Movie was for some particular characterName. Such
>> properties can be attached to a Role entity, which is then associated with the
>> main entities using ordinary properties like 'member' or 'actor'."
>>>
>>> It's like a get-out-of-triple-jail-free card without having to jail break RDF
>> parsers.
>>>
>>> Jeff
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Antoine Isaac [mailto:aisaac@few.vu.nl]
>>>> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 5:09 PM
>>>> To: public-schemabibex@w3.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [schemaorg] Vocabulary for comics (#378)
>>>>
>>>> Hi Dan, everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I wonder how the comics ontology relates to some work on manga seem
>>>> in the past
>>>> http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2467696.2467731
>>>> http://dcpapers.dublincore.org/pubs/article/download/979/952
>>>>
>>>> About role, I have a perhaps stupid question: does anyone remembers
>>>> why schema.org has a "double use" of the property that relates the
>>>> role to the two resources it relates?
>>>>
>>>> Reading Jeff's example:
>>>>
>>>> _:A1	schema:member [
>>>> 		a schema:Role;
>>>> 		schema:roleName entity:Q5371902; # harpsichordist
>>>> 		schema:member _:A4;
>>>> 	];
>>>>
>>>> This could be understood as "the agent A4 is a member of a role that
>>>> is a member of a group."
>>>>
>>>> If the group had had a "guest" harpsichordist for one concert, then
>>>> we would have
>>>>
>>>> _:A1	schema:member [
>>>> 		a schema:Role;
>>>> 		schema:roleName entity:Q5371902; # harpsichordist
>>>> 		schema:member _:A4;
>>>> 	];
>>>> _:A1	schema:guest [
>>>> 		a schema:Role;
>>>> 		schema:roleName entity:Q5371902; # harpsichordist
>>>> 		schema:guest _:A5;
>>>> 	];
>>>>
>>>> Is there interest in having to adapt the pattern in two places, as
>>>> opposed to have a same property (say, "rolePlayer") for every link
>>>> between a role to the entity that plays it?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Antoine
>>>>
>>>> On 3/12/15 8:51 PM, Wallis,Richard wrote:
>>>>> Yes Dan, I agree - I was over complicating things by inventing the
>>>>> need for a
>>>> Role subType she Role on its own would be sufficient.
>>>>>
>>>>> Good example Jeff.
>>>>>
>>>>> ~Richard
>>>>>
>>>>> On 12 Mar 2015, at 17:39, Young,Jeff (OR) <jyoung@oclc.org
>>>> <mailto:jyoung@oclc.org>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I agree that coordination on roleNames (especially using URIs)
>>>>>> would be a
>>>> great.
>>>>>> Here's a mockup I did recently to account for the instruments that
>>>> individual musicians played on a music album. It was while I was
>>>> mocking this up that I realized how many were covered by WikiData:
>>>>>>
>>>>
>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/68401641/Devon/TextExtraction.ttl
>>>>>> Jeff
>>>>>> *From:*Dan Scott [mailto:denials@gmail.com] *Sent:*Thursday,
>> March
>>>>>> 12, 2015 1:33 PM *To:*Wallis,Richard; Sean Petiya *Cc:*Young,Jeff
>>>>>> (OR); public-schemabibex@w3.org <mailto:public-
>> schemabibex@w3.org>
>>>>>> *Subject:*Re: [schemaorg] Vocabulary for comics (#378) On Thu, 12
>>>>>> Mar
>>>>>> 2015 at 12:42 Wallis,Richard <Richard.Wallis@oclc.org
>>>> <mailto:Richard.Wallis@oclc.org>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>       Hi Sean,
>>>>>>       My personal opinion is that the work you and the previously
>>>>>> referenced
>>>> draft on the Wiki
>>>>
>> <http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/wiki/Periodicals_and_Comic
>>>> s_synthesis> are within the scope of this group to discuss.
>>>>>>       As Jeff indicated, there is some overlap and/or mismatch
>>>>>> between your
>>>> discussions of Role and similar concepts from the Library of Congress
>>>> Relator Codes and WikiData.  How these terms are defined/referenced
>>>> in the vocabulary is then a question.  I am always sceptical of
>>>> statements such as "set that covers the major...", because it is very
>>>> difficult to a)get agreement on what is major and b) what do you do about
>> defying the minor ones.
>>>>>>       Your use of the term name 'role' conflicts with the Role
>>>> <http://schema.org/Role> type inSchma.org <http://schma.org/>, which
>>>> in itself is not a problem (you could use creativeRole for example).
>>>> However in covering off this need, I think it would be worth
>>>> considering the creation of a ContributionRole subtype of Role which
>>>> would allow the qualification of the contributor relationship between
>> CreativeWork and Person or Organization.
>>>> Then using the roleName attribute the type of contribution could be
>>>> qualified either by a URL to the Library of Congress Relators, or WikiData,
>> etc.
>>>> definitions, or, if not available, in plain text.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Erm. I thought the agreed-upon pattern for using Role (first
>>>>>> proposed by
>>>> danbri athttp://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-
>>>> vocabs/2014Sep/0009.html) would be to apply the external vocabulary
>>>> property in combination with schema:contributor (e.g. lcrel:clr) and
>>>> apply schema:roleName for those consumers that might, for whatever
>>>> reason, want to limit themselves to justschema.org
>> <http://schema.org/>. E.g.:
>>>>>> <dl vocab="http://schema.org/"
>>>> prefix="lcrel:http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/">
>>>>>>     <span property="contributor" typeof="Role">
>>>>>>       <dt><span property="roleName">Pencils</span>:</dt>
>>>>>>       <dd><span property="contributor">Ron Lim</span></dd>
>>>>>>     </span>
>>>>>>     <span property="contributor" typeof="Role">
>>>>>>       <dt><meta property="roleName" content="colorist">Colors:</dt>
>>>>>>       <dd><span property="contributor lcrel:clr">Chris
>>>> Sotomayor</span></dd>
>>>>>>       </span>
>>>>>> </dl>
>>>>>> ... which generates something like:
>>>>>>       ns1:contributor [ a ns1:Role ;
>>>>>>               ns1:contributor "Ron Lim" ;
>>>>>>               ns1:roleName "Pencils" ],
>>>>>>           [ a ns1:Role ;
>>>>>>               lcrel:clr "Chris Sotomayor" ;
>>>>>>               ns1:contributor "Chris Sotomayor" ;
>>>>>>               ns1:roleName "colorist" ]; This was the direction I
>>>>>> was taking things with my preconference at SWIB, which even
>>>>>> includes a Comic example:
>>>>>>
>>>>
>> https://coffeecode.net/swib14/preconference/rdfa_exercises/6_comic_bo
>>>>>> ok/ We could certainly update guidance and examples to use
>>>>>> contributor types from wikidata and other vocabularies, but I would
>>>>>> like to ensure we're starting from a common understanding. And
>>>>>> having put a fair amount of effort into the last iteration of
>>>>>> Periodicals & Comics, I have some interest in Comics going forward
>>>>>> :)
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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