RE: Archive as a collection of things

How about:

schema:Artifact
                a rdfs:Class;
                rdfs:subClassOf schema:Thing;
                rdfs:comment “a non-CreativeWork item held as part of a collection.”@en;
                .

If that’s plausible, then the domain/range for schema:isPartOf and schema:hasPart would presumably be updated to include it in addition to schema:CreativeWork.

Jeff

From: Richard Wallis [mailto:richard.wallis@dataliberate.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2015 7:04 PM
To: Sarah Romkey
Cc: public-architypes
Subject: Re: Archive as a collection of things

Giovanni touched on this in the other thread covering items in collections.

Re: CreativeWork: in addition to the examples that you raise Richard, there is a lot of content in archival collections which many would argue isn't "creative" in nature, such as data, governmental documents, etc. I would be glad to see us expand the hasPart idea beyond the scope of CreativeWork.

So will I.  Not sure that in the generic Schema.org world that you could argue that a government document is not a type of CreativeWork, but there are many other non-CreativeWork items that can be found in Archives.