Re: Proposal: Replace dctypes with schema.org

+1 for floating the proposal

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Jacob Jett
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Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship
The Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Randall Leeds <randall@bleeds.info> wrote:

> 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:
>
>>
>> Courtesy of Dan Scott, we could simply propose a new class in schema.org.
>> Seems like it would be useful outside of this work...
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Rob,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Jacob
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> _____________________________________________________
>>>
>>> Jacob Jett
>>> Research Assistant
>>> Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship
>>> The Graduate School of Library and Information Science
>>> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>>> 501 E. Daniel Street, MC-493, Champaign, IL 61820-6211 USA
>>> (217) 244-2164
>>> jjett2@illinois.edu
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Robert Sanderson <azaroth42@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thus the list maps currently as:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Dataset            -->  schema:Dataset
>>>
>>> StillImage         -->  schema:ImageObject
>>>
>>> MovingImage   -->  schema:VideoObject
>>>
>>> Sound              -->  schema:AudioObject
>>>
>>> Text                 -->   :(
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> We could be more explicit with our typing for Text:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> oa:Tag  when the body is a tag.
>>>
>>> oa:SemanticTag when it's a semantic tag
>>>
>>> schema:Comment when it's a comment [w/ oa:commenting]
>>>
>>> schema:Review when the body is a review
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> schema:WebPage when the body/target is a full webpage
>>>
>>> schema:WebPageElement when the body/target is part of a page
>>>
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Rob
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Rob Sanderson
>>>
>>> Information Standards Advocate
>>>
>>> Digital Library Systems and Services
>>>
>>> Stanford, CA 94305
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> --
>> Rob Sanderson
>> Information Standards Advocate
>> Digital Library Systems and Services
>> Stanford, CA 94305
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