Re: Itemprop for person

*cheers loudly*

At ISNI we are looking at ways to make the identifiers resolvable - so that an ISNI could in fact be an actionable URI. The only thing stopping us is a "terms and conditions" click-through that we are about to eliminate. So a Person URI could be a direct link to their page in the ISNI database. (Or - to complicate matters - it could MULTIPLY resolve to both ISNI and VIAF...and Wikipedia...and other places, if the identifier is embedded in a DOI.)

On Nov 27, 2012, at 12:36 PM, Richard Wallis <richard.wallis@oclc.org> wrote:

> Karen,
> 
> I think you are conflating the marking up of 'text on a web page' with
> describing the 'thing' the page is about.
> 
> On the page describing a CreativeWork with a name property of "War and
> Peace" you may [dependant on locale] show the user a string of characters
> representing the author thus: "Leo Tolstoy" or thus: "Лев Никола́евич
> Толсто́й".  In schema.org you should supply [as the author property] a URI
> to a page that represents (and describes). That Person description then may
> have more than one name properties (in this example at least two: "Leo
> Tolstoy" and "Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й").
> 
> Such Person URIs could be direct links to places such as VIAF
> <http://viaf.org/viaf/96987389>.  Alternatively they could be URIs in a
> local implementation which then asserts sameAs relationships with things
> like VIAF resources.
> 
> Does this mean that I am suggesting that sources like VIAF should be adding
> Schema markup to their services? - Yes I am.
> 
> 
> 
> On 27/11/2012 15:58, "Karen Coyle" <kcoyle@kcoyle.net> wrote:
> 
>> This already means that libraries
>> in Russia will have author Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й, and in the
>> English-speaking world we will have author Leo Tolstoy (or some variant
>> on that). These are the same real person, but I don't think that's the
>> point -- the point is that schema.org allows you to mark up your data, 
> 
> 
>

Received on Tuesday, 27 November 2012 16:45:50 UTC