Re: audiobook options in objects

On 08/02/2013 15:46, "Owen Stephens" <owen@ostephens.com> wrote:

> Hi Karen,
> 
> I'm inclined to ignore that definition of Media Object :) There is no reason
> why an Audio-book shouldn't be embedded in a webpage so I wouldn't want to
> exclude this either)

Part of our proposal could be to have the description of MediaObject tweaked
to include a stand alone media object.

> 
> I think you could make use of the Creative Work property "encoding" rather
> than making it a type of Media Object

That makes sense as it the pattern already used in WebPage.

> - which allows some split of content and
> carrier? (not wishing to resurrect that discussion!)

Please don't ;-)

> 
> This would allow:
> 
> Proposal 
> Thing > CreativeWork > Audiobook
> Thing > CreativeWork > Book > Audiobook
> 
> New properties for audiobook type
> 
> € readBy -- expected type: Person
> 
> Properties likely to be used from Book
> 
> € bookEdition (for abridgement note)
> € isbn
> 
> With a separate Media Object to be created and referenced using 'encoding'
> property from CreativeWork?
> 
> I've added as Proposal 4

Is readBy a property name that Schema would go for - they use byArtist in
MusicRecording?

~Richard.

> 
> Owen
> 
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> On 8 Feb 2013, at 15:23, Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net> wrote:
> 
>> I wrote up three options for audiobook:
>> 
>> http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/wiki/Object_Types#AudioBook
>> 
>> A key question here is whether we can re-use MediaObject, since it is defined
>> as being media embedded in a web page.
>> 
>> kc
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