Re: "citation" property needed on ScholarlyArticle

>>> On 2/14/2013 at 03:23 PM, Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com> wrote: 
> I would like to see us use Alf's proposal as an end-to-end test of the
> process. I say this for a few reasons:
> 
> * It should be uncontroversial since it was originally proposed by the
> schema.org creators themselves, as noted in the documentation [1]
> * It is a fairly small change, and we should be able to get get
> agreement about it as a group. If we can't agree about this, I suspect
> we won't be able to agree about anything. Also, we don't really know
> what "agreement" means in practice yet.
> * If we wait to submit all of our changes at once we may overwhelm the
> schema.org community with too many changes at one time, and impede a
> relatively simple fix from being done.
> * If we wait to submit all of our changes at once Alf can't start
> using citation in the real-world-work he is no doubt doing, which
> would help spread the use of the schema.org vocabularies.
> 
> In general I'd like to see us take an iterative approach to helping
> make schema.org better for bibliographic data -- instead of a
> waterfall model [2].

+1

Received on Thursday, 14 February 2013 20:49:35 UTC