Re: Relation between course and web resource

There is no problem having several data elements/entities on a single web
page using schema.org markup.  Each can be given its own unique URI
identifier and be related to any other data element including the main item
on the page.

There is no required relationship between individual descriptions and
identifiers for things and the number of web pages they are displayed upon.



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On 8 February 2016 at 16:06, Phil Barker <phil.barker@hw.ac.uk> wrote:

> Thanks for adding http://www.fife.ac.uk/student/courses/course/HCACC to
> the list of examples. It looks like a good one for working up examples. I
> agree that we should avoid requiring a separate page for each course
> offering, and in this case I would hope that the rows of the table at the
> bottom could be marked up as offerings.
>
> Phil
>
>
> On 07/02/2016 14:15, Developer, SleepingDog wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> The College where I work has recently refreshed its course offerings, and
>> the course events now appear in Google search results again as described in:
>>
>> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind1505&L=WEBSITE-INFO-MGT&P=R3089&1=WEBSITE-INFO-MGT&9=A&J=on&d=No+Match%3BMatch%3BMatches&z=4
>>
>> If, for example, you search Google for hnc accounting:
>>
>> https://www.google.co.uk/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=hnc+accounting&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&gfe_rd=cr&ei=40y3VvKrF9eFaKWkk1g
>>
>> you may see a result which lists two events (out of three):
>>
>> Pages - Course Details : HNC Accounting - Fife College
>> www.fife.ac.uk/student/courses/course/HCACC
>> This course is designed for those wishing to take up a career in
>> Accounting and Financial Administration within a range of organisations.
>> Both HNC and HND ...
>> 29 Aug 2016 - 23 Jun 2017       Full Time       Halbeath Campus ...
>> 31 Aug 2016 - 21 Jun 2017       Evenings only and ...   St Brycedale
>> Campus …
>>
>> What we call a course is an abstraction with the same title, description,
>> content, entry requirements and so forth which can contain zero or more
>> offerings which may have different start- and end-dates, modes of
>> attendance, locations and so on (the XCRI information model).
>>
>> It makes sense to us to publish one page for this “abstract course” which
>> contains a table of offerings.
>>
>> Now, I am not clear about the direction of discussion in this group, but
>> it is possible that it may be tending to a separate web page for each
>> “concrete course”, that is a separate page for each:
>>
>> "educational course [as] defined as a sequence of events and/or creative
>> works which aims to build knowledge, competence or ability of learners”
>>
>> which would not be very efficient for our kind of College, which often
>> runs multiple instances of the same “abstract course” simultaneously, in
>> different locations (campuses, regions) or different years of entry.
>>
>> This might also involve repeating identical content on different web
>> pages, which I believe is contrary to search optimisation best practice.
>>
>>
>> Tavis Reddick
>>
>>
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