Re: Literary works missing from Creative Properties and Classes

I have some sympathy with Ed¹ point of view.  Your proposal addresses well
the issue of describing literary works as a group of things, but I am not
sure that the use of the LiteraryWork type in the hierarchy adds much other
than potential for exclusion of things that could be usefully described.

For instance what would be the difference between a
CreativeWork/LiteraryWork/Play and a CreativeWork/Play ?

~Richard

PS. Good to have you on board Sean.


On 05/01/2013 20:31, "Ed Summers" <ehs@pobox.com> wrote:

> I think having classes for more or less concrete classes of writing
> like Poetry, Essays, Plays makes a lot of sense. Maybe it's just me,
> but I think a class called LiteraryWork is on less stable ground. It
> seems the topic of whether something is "literary" or not could be
> something that is open to quite a bit of debate. I would be more
> inclined to support your proposal if LiteraryWork was removed from the
> class hierarchy.
> 
> //Ed
> 
> On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Sean Fraser <sean@theatre-optique.com> wrote:
>> > Hi.
>> >
>> > Literary works are missing; recipes are included.
>> >
>> > Richard suggested I make a request for including literary work properties
>> > and classes to the Creative Work Schema here.
>> >
>> > My suggested properties and classes are for individual works (eg., poems,
>> > short stories, verse, sonnets, essays, memoirs, plays, excerpts, et al)
>> > printed on a website. They may be selected from an ISBN published work but
>> > these individual pieces have no ISBN.
>> >
>> > I started a collection of properties and classes on GitHub:
>> > https://github.com/TheatreSean/literary-works/blob/master/README.md. It's
>> > not complete. The level of classes remains dependent on the level of detail
>> > necessary. For example, should "poem" suffice or should the level go to
>> > "poem/haiku". It needs much more work.
>> >
>> > One aspect of assigning web pages a property and/or class that I haven't
>> > been able to find a useful solution: a long work that continues on multiple
>> > pages, e.g., "Paradise Lost" across 200 pages or "A Rose for Emily" across
5
>> > pages. The properties/classes could be assigned to the work's container on
>> > the server but not all sites have individual containers/folders for
>> > individual works.
>> >
>> > On my site, I have already started using the properties/class shown in the
>> > GitHub list since Schema.org was kind enough to encourage it.
>> >
>> > I would appreciate and welcome any suggestions or comments.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Sean
> 
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