Re: audiobook options in objects

So many choices! :-) Should the next step be to try to encode a few 
items and see how it works?

Also, the creativeWork "encoding" is *supposed* to be of type 
MediaObject. Does that make a difference?

kc

On 2/8/13 7:46 AM, Owen Stephens 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)
>
> I think you could make use of the Creative Work property "encoding" rather than making it a type of Media Object - which allows some split of content and carrier? (not wishing to resurrect that discussion!)
>
> 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
>
> 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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