Re: Comics and periodicals in schema.org (was Re: journal article for next call?)

Hi Jean!

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 5:29 AM, jean delahousse
<delahousse.jean@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> It is both a question and a comment. Is there a link between the work you do
> to describe periodical/serial publications and the standards of the ISSN
> about periodical/serial publication description ?

François-Xavier from ISSN did provide very helpful input on this list
about ISSNs [1].

> ISSN has models applied to Marc21, to LOD with the Press-oo model (based on
> FRBR-oo), and they might be already working on a Schema.org model.

Based on the current v0.1 draft of PRESSoo from March 2013 [2], I
think we can both validate some of the current proposal decisions and
make connections in the future.

For example, from page 6:

"Figure 2 shows how ‘dead’ serials are modelled in PRESSOO, in the
context of physical publishing (as opposed to online publishing), and
more particularly how
the serial is connected with each of its individual issues, and how
each individual issue is
connected with individual articles."

This maps nicely, I think, to the model of Periodical ->
PeriodicalIssue -> Article serving as collections. In the concrete
realization of this proposal, I think we would still want
PeriodicalVolume as it reflects the importance placed on volumes by
publishers and collections.

Further in that paragraph on page 6: "Of course, more complex cases
occur in real life; e.g., a
lengthy article can be ‘sliced’ and published over several issues.
Such a case can be easily
modelled, using either the R5 has component or R15 has fragment FRBROO
property."

That's certainly an interesting use case that we have not yet captured
in these discussions. In the current proposal, I suppose one could
either create multiple Articles and include a note in the description
stating that it is part X of Y; or one could have a single Article and
include multiple partOfPeriodicalIssue properties (you would still
want a note in the description). Not really satisfying, but in the
interest of getting periodicals and comics reflected in greater depth
in schema.org sooner rather than later, perhaps we should defer this
use case to a future iterative proposal.

The "relationships between serials" section that begins on page 9
holds great promise for the future; we have touched on this in past
discussions, but if the PRESSoo vocabulary is published then I think
it would be very useful to use it as an external enumeration for the
different possible relationships (continues, absorbs, separates, etc).

> It could be really nice to have the schema.org model for periodical/serial
> publications easily interoperable with the ISSN standards as the
> periodical/serial publications are already described in the national library
> catalogs following those standards, and those catalogs are published on the
> web with semantic annotation based on schema.org.

Fully agreed! I think we could achieve this, but I think we should
also move forward with the current proposal to schema.org and
potentially work on the mappings in parallel.

> I copy Francois-Xavier from ISSN who has been working on Press-oo ontology
> (francois-xavier.pelegrin@issn.org).

1. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-schemabibex/2013Nov/0058.html
2. http://www.issn.org/files/issn/technicals/PRESSoo_01.pdf

Thanks!

Received on Thursday, 5 December 2013 16:06:12 UTC