RE: Itemprop for person

Is a fictional character a person or a thing? 

Oooh, philosophy! "What is the nature of a thing?"

Laura Dawson
Product Manager, Identifiers
Bowker
laura.dawson@bowker.com
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From: Richard Wallis [richard.wallis@oclc.org]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 4:07 PM
To: Dawson, Laura; public-schemabibex@w3.org
Subject: Re: Itemprop for person

The more I think about it, the more inclined I am to suggest that this is a
suggested new property for 'Thing' - most any type of thing you describe
could be fictional.

~Richard


On 08/11/2012 15:55, "Dawson, Laura" <Laura.Dawson@bowker.com> wrote:

> I like this very much!
>
> Laura Dawson
> Product Manager, Identifiers
> Bowker
> laura.dawson@bowker.com
> ________________________________________
> From: Richard Wallis [richard.wallis@oclc.org]
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 3:48 PM
> To: Dawson, Laura; public-schemabibex@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Itemprop for person
>
> Interesting thought ­ also applicable for Organization (such as Hogwarts
> School of Witchcraft and Wizardry)
>
> ~Richard.
>
> On 08/11/2012 15:35, "Dawson, Laura" <Laura.Dawson@bowker.com> wrote:
>
> Could we possibly add an ³isfictional² tag? To identify characters (such as
> Sherlock Holmes)? Some fictional characters will eventually have ISNIs and
> we¹ll need to structure data around them.
>
> Laura Dawson
> Product Manager, Identifiers
> Bowker
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