- From: Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net>
- Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 17:50:28 -0800
- To: "public-schemabibex@w3.org" <public-schemabibex@w3.org>
It's always going to be hard to come up with a definitive, and yet easily usable, list. Many of these genres are not mutually exclusive -- I suppose someone could write their memoirs in poetry format. I'd worry about mixing literary genre (that is, the form that something is written in, like a poem) and type of content (folktale). However, I looked at the Library of Congress genre list [1] and it, too, seems to mix genre and type (e.g. dictionary and fiction), so I suppose it is inevitable. However, you might want to look at that list to get another point of view. kc [1] http://www.loc.gov/standards/valuelist/marcgt.html On 1/5/13 12:31 PM, Ed Summers 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 > > -- Karen Coyle kcoyle@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet
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