Re: relating IndividualProduct to Product

No, productID is for attaching unique or almost unique identifiers to products. Note that the notion of identity varies - for a ProductModel, the GTIN13 is a unique identifier, but for an IndividualProduct, it is not, because there will be many products with the same GTIN13.

Product ID is a nice super-property for numerical or alphanumerical codes that can be used for entitity consolidation. Let us not overload this with other purposes.


Side comment: Schema.org currently lacks a few subproperty relations for GoodRelations-based properties, because such were not supported in schema.org in 2012. I will file a pull request to add those as soon as I can; this will illustrate how useful productID is.

Martin

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> On 10 Apr 2015, at 17:01, Thad Guidry <thadguidry@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I would suggest to use instead productID
> 
> but looks like we need to expand it's datatype ?
> 
> the productID is reserved for exactly your case (hard linking an individualProduct to a "product group" or productID...
> however the problem is that the datatype is only text at the moment.
> 
> 
> Thad
> +ThadGuidry
> 
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 9:47 AM, Niklas Lindström <lindstream@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> You could use sdo:model to link to a sdo:ProductModel, like:
> 
>     {
>       "@id": "https://www.fairphone.com/fairphone",
>       "@type": "ProductModel",
>       "name": "The Fairphone"
>     }
> 
>     {
>       "@id": "https://graph.wwelves.org/704e3a57-c09e-4846-b27a-d31854096572"
>       "@type": "IndividualProduct",
>       "model": {"@id": "https://www.fairphone.com/fairphone"},
>       "name": "A Fairphone currently used by elf Pavlik",
>       "serialNumber": "2092043924022"
>     }
> 
> Cheers,
> Niklas
> 
> 
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 4:39 PM, ☮ elf Pavlik ☮ <perpetual-tripper@wwelves.org> wrote:
> On 04/10/2015 04:27 PM, Thad Guidry wrote:
> > I would explain it as:
> > http://schema.org/Product  is really "Product Category Offered".  You could
> > also think "Product Class Offered" or "Product Group Offered" if it helps.
> >
> > beneath that you might have 5 laptops that you are offering to sell as a
> > product... so each one....is an  http://schema.org/IndividualProduct
> >
> > Fairphone is definitely a http://schema.org/Product   each individual one
> > (with it's unique IMEI code) is a http://schema.org/IndividualProduct
> >
> > You can also say:
> > http://schema.org/IndividualProduct can be registered by users using their
> > IMEI, Serial #, etc... something that uniquely ties that individual product
> > to that customer.
> >
> > Only put things that are individually unique for a particular IMEI, Serial
> > #, etc... against the http://schema.org/IndividualProduct
> > One thing that you can put against that http://schema.org/IndividualProduct
> > is actually a chipset firmware version ... because sometimes some folks get
> > version A1 and later on in production the rest of the users might be
> > getting version A2, etc... if you have that kind of data...that would go
> > under http://schema.org/IndividualProduct  rather than saying ALL your
> > Fairphones have version A2 by putting ia firmware version under
> > http://schema.org/Product
> Thanks Thad, makes sense but I still don't find answer to my question.
> 
> How exactly do I link an IndividualProduct
> {
>   "@id": "https://graph.wwelves.org/704e3a57-c09e-4846-b27a-d31854096572"
>   "@type": "IndividualProduct",
>   "name": "A Fairphone currently used by elf Pavlik",
>   "serialNumber": "2092043924022"
> }
> 
> to the Product
> 
> {
>   "@id": "https://www.fairphone.com/fairphone",
>   "@type": "Product",
>   "name": "The Fairphone"
> }
> 
> ?
> 
> 
> >
> >
> >
> > Thad
> > +ThadGuidry <https://www.google.com/+ThadGuidry>
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 8:52 AM, ☮ elf Pavlik ☮ <
> > perpetual-tripper@wwelves.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Looking at
> >> * http://schema.org/Product
> >>   "Any offered product or service. For example: a pair of shoes; a
> >> concert ticket; the rental of a car; a haircut; or an episode of a TV
> >> show streamed online."
> >> * http://schema.org/IndividualProduct
> >>   "A single, identifiable product instance (e.g. a laptop with a
> >> particular serial number)."
> >>
> >> I struggle to understand how I can specify for IndividualProduct just
> >> URI of the relevant Product. For example
> >>
> >> {
> >>   "@id": "https://www.fairphone.com/fairphone",
> >>   "@type": "Product",
> >>   "name": "The Fairphone"
> >> }
> >>
> >> {
> >>   "@id": "https://graph.wwelves.org/704e3a57-c09e-4846-b27a-d31854096572"
> >>   "@type": "IndividualProduct",
> >>   "name": "A Fairphone currently used by elf Pavlik",
> >>   "serialNumber": "2092043924022"
> >> }
> >>
> >> I understand that I could *duplicate* all the values of properties from
> >> * https://www.fairphone.com/fairphone
> >> on
> >> * https://graph.wwelves.org/704e3a57-c09e-4846-b27a-d31854096572
> >> But I would prefer to just reference it by URI and if needed embed
> >> information about Product resource in document describing
> >> IndividualProduct resource. And the generic data about Product would
> >> keep https://www.fairphone.com/fairphone as its subject.
> >>
> >> Thank you for help with understanding how to do that, or pointing out
> >> flaws in my approach.
> >>
> >> Cheers!
> >>
> >>
> >
> 
> 
> 
>

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