Re: "citation" property needed on ScholarlyArticle

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 5:35 AM, Richard Wallis <richard.wallis@oclc.org> wrote:
> I'm not so sure that you would have 'audio' in a painting,

Yes, I'm not sure that makes sense. Are you using that strangeness as
an argument for adding citation to Creative Work? I'm not sure just
because something seems weird is an excuse to make it weirder...

> or contentLocation is particularly relevant to software.

Software can be physically instantiated (say on a CD or diskette) and
have a location, so I don't see this as a problem myself.

> Could citation be used for paintings that include representations of other
> paintings?

I guess it could. It seems like a corner case though, which is not
exactly schema.org's strength.

> I would suggest that citation may be relevant in enough of CreativeWork's
> sub-types for it to be one of those properties that would be useful to many,
> but not all.  The alternative would be to sprinkle it into only some of the
> sub-types, a process that no doubt at a later date we would discover will
> have missed something.

I am neutral about this, since I don't really understand how
schema.org is managed...which is Alf's main question I think.

//Ed

Received on Wednesday, 13 February 2013 11:08:03 UTC