Re: schema.org/sameThingAs proposal

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Thad Guidry <thadguidry@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dan & Jason,
>
> I would like to see us help developers even a bit more...
>
> by furthering an example in the proposal about CreativeWork's "about"
> property usage (a Subject of a CreativeWork ) and its availability also and
> how "about" differs and contrasts with "sameThingAs" (a relationship
> property that can be used for mapping between any identifiers that provide
> information about the same Subjects or same Entities)
>

I'm having trouble parsing that sentence.

Maybe related, maybe not, but I'd expect the subject and object of a
'sameThingAs' assertion to be of the same type, whereas they'd be different
for 'about'.  "Subject of" and equivalence are different concepts, as I
think you were pointing out.

-jason


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