Re: Proposal: Replace dctypes with schema.org

We should at the least float the proposal. If that's the only obvious
shortcoming for us, seems like clearly we should ask.

On Fri, Mar 20, 2015, 17:34 Robert Sanderson <azaroth42@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Courtesy of Dan Scott, we could simply propose a new class in schema.org.
> Seems like it would be useful outside of this work...
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> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-vocabs/2015Mar/0113.html
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> Rob
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> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Denenberg, Ray <rden@loc.gov> wrote:
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>> Please, no.  let’s just define the class oa:Text.
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>> Ray
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>> *From:* jgjett@gmail.com [mailto:jgjett@gmail.com] *On Behalf Of *Jacob
>> Jett
>> *Sent:* Friday, March 20, 2015 2:12 PM
>> *To:* Web Annotation
>> *Subject:* Re: Proposal: Replace dctypes with schema.org
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>> Hi Rob,
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>> This tentatively looks good. With regards to text, we'd likely to have to
>> use the extremely abstract schema:CreativeWork class. We'd might want to
>> further clarify using the predicate-object combo of "schema:genre
>> schema:Text" to make an assertion about the Creative Work. This does seem
>> more modern than Dublin Core but I do wonder if it is actually better.
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>> Regards,
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>> Jacob
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>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Robert Sanderson <azaroth42@gmail.com>
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>> As discussed on the call on Wednesday, we should make a change to the
>> list of types for body and target at least to replace Image with
>> StillImage.  A further suggestion was that we should consider schema.org
>> classes as more modern and likely to be better integrated with other
>> systems.
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>> It would also give us easy classes for Code, SoftwareApplication, Game,
>> WebPage... but there isn't one (that I can find) for generic Textual
>> content.  schema:Text is a datatype, rather than a class for resources.
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>> Thus the list maps currently as:
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>> Dataset            -->  schema:Dataset
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>> StillImage         -->  schema:ImageObject
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>> MovingImage   -->  schema:VideoObject
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>> Sound              -->  schema:AudioObject
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>> Text                 -->   :(
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>> We could be more explicit with our typing for Text:
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>> oa:Tag  when the body is a tag.
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>> oa:SemanticTag when it's a semantic tag
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>> schema:Comment when it's a comment [w/ oa:commenting]
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>> schema:Review when the body is a review
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>> schema:WebPage when the body/target is a full webpage
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>> schema:WebPageElement when the body/target is part of a page
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>> And then leave anything beyond those to further communities to define?
>> Is there anything in our current set of use cases that would fall out side
>> of the above?
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>> Thanks!
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>> Rob
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>> --
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>> Rob Sanderson
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>> Information Standards Advocate
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>> Digital Library Systems and Services
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>> Stanford, CA 94305
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> Rob Sanderson
> Information Standards Advocate
> Digital Library Systems and Services
> Stanford, CA 94305
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