Re: Semantically marking up a "checklist" or process

I think we're basically in agreement - broaden the range of itemListElement
to Thing, and document on that property that ListItem should be used when
explicit ordering or numbering is required.  On ListItem, I prefer the
property name "item" to "represents" -- the latter seems confusable with
"sameAs".

jb


On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Martin Hepp <
martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org> wrote:

> Hi Justin:
> On Sep 11, 2013, at 5:51 PM, Justin Boyan wrote:
>
> > The current proposal is ambiguous about whether the ListItem is the item
> itself, or whether the ListItem.represents is the item.
> > Here are two options which I think would be clearer:
>
> > Option 1. Make the range of itemListElement be Thing.  Create a new
> StructuredValue called NumberedItem which pairs a Number and a Thing.
>
> The ListItem is the ListItem ;-) Actually, it is the same as the
> NumberedItem type you propose below. If you want to model an entity linked
> to the list item (i.e. a song, artist, place, ...), then you can define
> that externally or within the list.
>
> We could broaden the range of itemListElement to Thing so that a list can
> contain three types of entries:
>
> a) untyped, pure text entries (as it is in the current version)
> b) a structured value that holds a position and a link to another entity
> (my original proposal) or
> c) any other entity without an order (basically your proposal; but then it
> becomes a unordered list).
>
> > With this schema, representing a list without numbers can be done with a
> flat model:
> >
> > { "@context" : "http://schema.org",
> >   "@type" : "ItemList",
> >   "itemListElement" : [ {"@type" : "Movie", "name" : "Jaws"}, {"@type" :
> "Movie", "name" : "Bulworth"} ] }
> >
> Note that this list has not deterministic order. While JSON-LD and
> Microdata carry an order of the elements in the syntax, the order can be
> lost when the data is translated by RDF tooling.
>
> > And the extra hierarchy only comes into play when numbers are required:
> >
> > { "@context" : "http://schema.org",
> >   "@type" : "ItemList",
> >   "itemListElement" : [ {"@type" : "NumberedItem", "number" : 1, "item"
> : {"@type" : "Movie", "name" : "Jaws"}},
> >                         {"@type" : "NumberedItem", "number" : 2, "item"
> : {"@type" : "Movie", "name" : Bulworth"}} ] }
> >
> >
> This does not work, because you assign the number to the item instead of
> assigning it to the item in the context of the list.
>
> > Option 2. Add a new property for the item position directly to
> schema.org/Thing. Call it, say, "rank" -- maybe it finds some other
> general applications besides item lists.
> >
> > { "@context" : "http://schema.org",
> >   "@type" : "ItemList",
> >   "itemListElement" : [{"@type" : "Movie", "rank" : 1, "name" : "Jaws"},
> {"@type" : "Movie", "rank": 2, "name" : "Bulworth"}] }
> >
> >
> > What do you think? I think I prefer Option 1.
> >
> This has the same problem.
>
> In fact, as far as I can see, the original proposal caters for all of
> these cases, except for the case where you want an unordered list.
>
> Martin
>
> > Justin
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Martin Hepp <
> martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > My question was about *numbered* unstructured steps... which I think
> is actually the use case that started the thread.
> > >
> > Then I ListItem.name should do the trick.
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Martin
> > >
> > >
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