- From: Phil Barker <phil.barker@hw.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 09:08:09 +0100
- To: public-schemaorg@w3.org
On 17/05/2017 02:11, Thad Guidry wrote: > > For Nobel Prizes, they are given during a ceremony. Officially on > invitations sent, correspondence, and the media press kits, it is > called "The 2016 Nobel Prize Award Ceremony", etc. > https://www.nobelprize.org/ceremonies/ > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-uNKf0Go9Y There is a big difference between a prize being awarded at an event and for an event. You could claim that Nobel prizes are awarded for events such as discovering the structure of DNA or for "writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation", but I think that's stretching the definition. Aaron's argument that "a prize is always awarded for some sort of competition, which is in turn always some sort of event" seems wrong to me on the first point. Not all prizes are for competitions. However, I think we should try to distinguish between prizes and awards for achievements such as passing exams. So how about changing the definition to explicitly say what Aaron asserted (and allow for >1 prize): "A prize awarded for a competition" A Nobel Prize may not fall within this definition, but maybe it is more like an award for passing an exam than a prize for athletics or solving crossword puzzles. If we just want a definition of prize in all senses the word is used we might as well just use https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/prize Phil -- Phil Barker @philbarker LRMI, Cetis, ICBL http://people.pjjk.net/phil Heriot-Watt University Workflow: http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/~philb/workflow/
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