FW: schema.org 1.0b update

See below:

Our Citation proposal has now been adopted into Schema - the first of
several from SchemaBibEx we hope.

At the same time sameAs has been adopted, plus there are improvements in
the documentation on schema.org.

~Richard.
 

On 24/07/2013 16:59, "Dan Brickley" <danbri@google.com> wrote:

>Some of you already noticed, so here's a quick summary.
>
>We've just posted a new version of the schema.org site.
>
>It has two vocabulary changes:
>
>1. addition of http://schema.org/sameAs
>
>Per http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/sameAs this adds a property to
>Thing that makes it easier to indicate identifying URLs for entities
>being described.
>
>2. http://schema.org/citation has been moved up to CreativeWork, from
>MedicalScholarlyArticle
>
>Details http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/CitationPromotion
>
>Thanks to the BibExtend group for suggesting this small but useful
>improvement.
>
>
>The site also has some practical improvements:
>
>1. schema.org now has per-property pages.
>
>I'm happy to close this longstanding issue,
>http://www.w3.org/2011/webschema/track/issues/2
>
>Every property in schema.org should now de-reference. For example,
>http://schema.org/actor or the links above for
>http://schema.org/sameAs and http://schema.org/citation. This is
>currently quite basic but should be useful in a number of ways. It
>helps with property-centric schemas such as LRMI (e.g.
>http://schema.org/learningResourceType ) and provides a foundation for
>publishing other useful pieces of information about each property
>(source/attribution, mappings, inverses and super-properties etc.).
>
>2. Per-term machine-readable definitions
>
>Our Type, Enumeration and the new Property pages each have basic
>embedded RDFa/RDFS schema descriptions. We continue to publish a full
>RDFa/RDFS dump of the schema at
>http://schema.org/docs/schema_org_rdfa.html and are considering other
>improvements (JSON-LD, OWL, change logs / history, etc.).
>
>3. Pages for Enumerations now use '::' instead of '>' to indicate type
>membership.
>
>http://schema.org/Enumeration has a number of sub-types for areas
>where we enumerate a small number of options.  For example,
>http://schema.org/BookFormatType is such a type.
>
>http://schema.org/BookFormatType itself has a number of instances,
>e.g. http://schema.org/Hardcover
>
>Previously, the presentation of Hardcover was like this:
>
>Thing > Intangible > Enumeration > BookFormatType > Hardcover
>
>We now show this:
>
>Thing > Intangible > Enumeration > BookFormatType :: Hardcover
>
>... to make it slightly clearer that Hardcover is modeled as an instance.
>
>(whether this is a good treatment of book formats is another and more
>substantive topic...).
>
>Thanks to all who contributed to this.
>
>Dan (for the schema.org team)
>
>

Received on Wednesday, 24 July 2013 16:28:15 UTC