Re: Missing Schema.Org properties

No eISBNs. Or I shall get apoplectic!

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On Dec 3, 2012, at 4:03 PM, Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net> wrote:

> 
> On 12/2/12 11:48 PM, Shlomo Sanders wrote:
>> Missing objects and properties:
>> 
>> ·Ability to describe authoritative subjects (LC/Mesh/etc.)?
>> Is this Genre? I don’t think this is Keyword.
>> 
>> ·Issn, issue, volume, eissn, etc. (Book has isbn but article does not
>> have issn).
> 
> The identifier question worries me, as well. Richard is right that you need both an identifier and its agency, and we can't have a separate property for every possible identifier in existence. Does anyone know if there are communities that intend to rely on the domain name as being sufficient? e.g. id.loc.gov, or dewey.info?
> 
>> Should there be Journal and article have ability to state membership in
>> a Journal (either through properties and/or URI of the Journal)?
> 
> There is an analogous situation in http://schema.org/MusicRecording, where you have /inAlbum. I find the http://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle schema to be very odd at the moment (it has no extensions beyond /Article), but this would be (IMO) the right place for this.
> 
>> 
>> ·Other identifiers: Eisbn, Doi (same as above), pmid, oclc number, Ex
>> Libris too has IDs, etc,
>> 
>> ·Citations
>> 
>> · (Digital) Access Rights, Embargo
>> 
>> ·Collections and Packages
>> 
>> ·Abstract, ToC
> 
> I think folks have been assuming that /description works well enough here. In fact, in library data is much less likely to provide description (MARC 520), than a ToC (505). If we have a ToC then we need at least some way of ordering those repeated elements. (Or force ourselves to provide it as a single string.) I do think that ToC and description are different things, and you do see them treated differently in, for instance, Google Books and in Amazon.
> 
>> 
>> ·Additional Title?
> 
> Is this an alternative title, or the title of something else contained within the package?
> 
>> 
>> ·Thumbnail
>> 
>> ·Author Initial
> 
> Could you say more about what you mean by this?
> 
> Thanks,
> kc
> 
>> 
>> If someone thinks there are ways of describing the above then please say so.
>> 
>> The above list added to the Wiki.
>> 
>> Shlomo
> 
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