- From: Stuart Sutton <sasutton@dublincore.net>
- Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 07:14:37 -0700
- To: Phil Barker <phil.barker@hw.ac.uk>
- Cc: "public-schema-course-extend@w3.org" <public-schema-course-extend@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CAK74qRsnYzxPAAcjYtkJN2MaO0+GQksRv761wCxgzRC7fQoQQQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 3:23 AM, Phil Barker <phil.barker@hw.ac.uk> wrote: ... > > Richard has suggested using the existing offeredBy [2] property to > indicate who is making the course available. > "Both Course and CourseInstance inherit the offers property which would be > used to identify individual Offer(s). Offer has the offeredBy property to > reference the offering organisation/institution." [ > https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-schema-course-extend/2016May/0006.html > RJW] > > That seems sound, but I do have a concern that it ends up being quite > complex, is anyone going to argue for the simpler option of extending the > range of offeredBy so that it can be used on Course & CourseInstance > directly? > Phil,I think you meant extending the domain and not the range of offeredBy? A legitimate, useful argument can be made for extending the domain of offeredBy to include Course. An assertion that a Course is offeredBy a particular Organization or set of Organizations would be useful without reference to a particular Offer. I have some difficulty with such an extension to CourseInstance because it is, in a way, a particular offer (lower case). > > > Neither schema.org/offeredBy nor schema.org/creator fully cover what it > means for an organization to provide a course. I propose a new property to > cover this: > > provider, a property of Course with expect range Organization, being the > Organization which is responsible for providing the educational input for > the course, e.g. providing content, educational events, assessments, > accreditation etc. > Would a provider property solve the "endorsed" aspect of provenance noted. > > > I have started a wiki page for this requirement [3] and will work up an > example or two for it. > > > Phil > > 1. > https://www.w3.org/community/schema-course-extend/wiki/Outline_use_cases#use_case_1.4_refining_UC1_by_provenance > 2. http://schema.org/offeredBy > 3. > https://www.w3.org/community/schema-course-extend/wiki/Organizations_providing_and_offering_course > > -- > -- > Phil Barker @philbarker > LRMI, Cetis, ICBL http://people.pjjk.net/phil > Heriot-Watt University > > Ubuntu: http://xkcd.com/456/ > not so much an operating system as a learning opportunity. > >
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