Re: Itemprop for person

 > I believe that Schema, with the addition of isFictional at Thing level,
 > could answer both of these.
-- But is schema.org interested in setting up a scenario where entire 
fictional universes can be described?  I've always received the distinct 
impression that schema.org is interested in capturing actual things 
(even if they are abstract CreativeWorks) first and foremost.  I also 
suspect it would be a colossal struggle to have a new property added to 
Thing without an overwhelmingly compelling case, which is to say that we 
need to make a strong case for enabling the possibility of fictional 
medical studies or postal addresses, among other things.

Schema.org does note that Person may be "alive, dead, undead, or 
fictional" but it doesn't provide a reasonable way to identify the 
latter two (though I'm pretty sure if something is "undead" it is in all 
likelihood also "fictional") [1].

I would say we should limit our focus to the fictional (or not) status 
of Persons and Organizations and be mindful of the justification we will 
be asked to make for that considerably high-level addition.

I too would expect "genre" be used to describe something as non-fiction 
or fictional.

Kevin

[1] http://www.schema.org/Person



On 11/14/2012 12:57 PM, Richard Wallis wrote:
> Bit late picking this one up Owen, sorry.
>
> I believe that Schema, with the addition of isFictional at Thing level,
> could answer both of these.
>
> CreativeWork>genre would be used to identify the fiction/non-fiction
> status of the writing and the setting of Person>isFictional will
> describe the status of the Person (with a jobTitle of “detective”) that
> is related to that CreativeWork using CreativeWork>about.
>
> ~Richard.
>
> On 14/11/2012 00:13, "Owen Stephens" <owen@ostephens.com> wrote:
>
>     I want to find fictional writing about detectives
>     I want to find non-fiction writing about fictional detectives
>

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