Re: Rationale behind separate TechArticle / HowTo types?

Hi Richard,

Thank you for the information. An example of such a multi-type entity would
be very useful. Is there a facility for cross-linking between the two types
so that people looking at HowTo could also see the possible joint use with
TechArticle? (I'm not sure how the docs are generated; I assume
automatically from an RDFSs source, so not sure if arbitrary
cross-referencing is possible.)

Who would normally update the documents? As it happens, I'll need to come
up with an example of this multi-type entity myself for an upcoming
presentation — would it be helpful if I made that available as a possible
example to use in the docs?

Joe


On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Richard Wallis <
richard.wallis@dataliberate.com> wrote:

> Hi Joe,
>
> The simple answer to your question is that there was probably very little
> connection between the recent development of the HowTo
> <http://schema.org/HowTo> type and its predecessor (by a long time)
> TechArticle <http://schema.org/TechArticle>.  It certainly escaped my
> notice that ‘*Example: How-to topics, step-by-step*,’ was part of the
> TechArticle description.
>
> For your article that has procedural info use case I would agree that a
> multi-type entity would be the most suitable solution.
>
> I suggest that the description of TechArticle is tweaked a little to
> reference such a use, and an example or two added.
>
> ~Richard.
>