Re: Content-Carrier Proposal

Proposal page updated to reflect this.

~Richard.


On 04/02/2013 16:14, "Richard Wallis" <richard.wallis@oclc.org> wrote:

> 
> On 04/02/2013 14:28, "Karen Coyle" <kcoyle@kcoyle.net> wrote:
>> Richard, I think that productontology.org can be ONE source of URIs, but
>> definitely not the only one. Library data already has definitions of
>> content and carrier (with URIs) [1], and publishers have their own in
>> ONIX. > [1] 336 - Content Type
>> http://metadataregistry.org/concept/list/vocabulary_id/45.html
>> 337 - Media Type
>> http://metadataregistry.org/concept/list/vocabulary_id/37.html
>> 338 - Carrier Type
>> http://metadataregistry.org/concept/list/vocabulary_id/46.html
> 
> 
> Yes Karen you are right to call me out on this.  As a proponent of the
> Linked Data distributed data principles, I should know better than even
> suggest a single source of identifiers.
> 
> Note to self: Don't draft proposals in airport lounges.
> 
> I also agree that within a community of practice it may be desirable to
> include the URI for the nearest productontology.org "thing", so that those
> outside that community can usefully identify those types of things.
> 
> 
> Having said that, I believe that productontology.org should also be
> recommended as a significant source of such identifiers, not just for the
> bibliographic community but for all who need URIs for types of resources.
> 
> I agree that the Wikipedia definition of a book could do with a little
> improvement, but that's the joy of Wikipedia - if you think a description
> could do with improvement you can just go ahead and improve it.
> 
> There is also a distinction between Wikipedia descriptions and the URIs
> derived from them in dbpedia and productontology.  One is an identifier for
> the concept, the other is the current community consensus of the description
> of it.  After all at one time they locked down the George W Bush page
> because of too much disagreement, yet the dbpedia URI still identified the
> person they were disagreeing about.
> 
> ~Richard.
> 
>>> 
>>> Additional type was not in the original Schema spec, being introduced a
>>> year later to add to microdata an ability, that comes by default with
>>> RDFa, to replicate a real world need for multiple types.  Because of
>>> this we have a legacy of individual solutions, such as MediaObject,
>>> which will cause some initial confusion as this more general approach
>>> gets adopted.
>>> 
>>> ~Richard.
>>> 
>>> On 03/02/2013 23:57, "Niklas Lindström" <lindstream@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>     But I figure that the focus here is to find some minimal
>>>     indication of this distinction via some properties on the same
>>>     (overloaded) resource to start with. That should be usable too.
>>> 
>>>     .. I may have made my own mess of conflations here of course, e.g. by
>>>     equating container and manifestation. But I trust you to set me
>>>     straight. ;)
>>> 
>>>     Cheers,
>>>     Niklas
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Feb 3, 2013, at 4:37 PM, Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> The question is: what about other industries? Music? Movie publishers?
>>>>> Software? Games? Groceries? I'm trying to think as broadly as possible.
>>>>> 
>>>>> kc
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 2/3/13 12:41 PM, Laura Dawson wrote:
>>>>>> Outside the library world, we refer to it as "content" and "container" -
>>>>>> so I don't think it's too far off.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 2/3/13 3:30 PM, "Karen Coyle" <kcoyle@kcoyle.net> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Richard,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Thanks for starting this. My first comment is that we need some good
>>>>>>> definitions of "content" and "carrier." It's fairly common terminology
>>>>>>> in the library world but not beyond.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> My second is that this links to a more general discussion I have been
>>>>>>> thinking of starting on the general vocab list, which is about
>>>>>>> "re-usable bits and facets." The content and carrier concepts are almost
>>>>>>> universals and I can imagine "carrier" becoming a re-usable facet
>>>>>>> available to any schemas that fine it useful. (Ditto things like
>>>>>>> "location"). The library "content & carrier" could become a focus for
>>>>>>> talking about how truly non-specific these concepts are and why the
>>>>>>> creation of freely available facets could aid in metadata development.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> kc
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 2/2/13 1:04 PM, Richard Wallis wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I have just added a Content-Carrier proposal to the Wiki.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> It does not propose extension of the vocabulary as such, but I have
>>>>>>>> linked it from the Vocabulary Proposals page
>>>>>>>> <http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/wiki/Vocabulary_Proposals> as
>>>>>>>> it is a proposal as to a recommended way to apply the current
>>>>>>>> vocabulary
>>>>>>>> to address an issue that concerns this group.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> ~Richard.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Karen Coyle
>>>>>>> kcoyle@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net
>>>>>>> ph: 1-510-540-7596
>>>>>>> m: 1-510-435-8234
>>>>>>> skype: kcoylenet
>>>>> 
>>>>> --
>>>>> Karen Coyle
>>>>> kcoyle@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net
>>>>> ph: 1-510-540-7596
>>>>> m: 1-510-435-8234
>>>>> skype: kcoylenet
>>>>> 
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