Re: Voting for CreativeWork property names

In a user interface there probably would be some descriptive info - same
situation as for the question of do you just provide the VIAF URI for the
creator of a work or the LCSH URI for a subject.

If that info is coded into the system driving the user interface or
effectively drawn live from those authoritative sources live, is an
implementation question.

~Richard.


On 17/05/2013 17:28, "Ross Singer" <rxs@talis.com> wrote:

>I'm skeptical of this use case.  You'd link from an abstract blob of
>nothingness (CreativeWork) to an instance (Book at member library) with
>absolutely no description of what the link is pointing to?
>
>-Ross.
>
>On May 17, 2013, at 12:16 PM, "Wallis,Richard" <Richard.Wallis@oclc.org>
>wrote:
>
>> 
>> On 17/05/2013 16:36, "Ross Singer" <rxs@talis.com> wrote:
>>> So this seems to me that CreativeWork -> Book | Movie | etc. is a
>>> relationship that you generally wouldn't want to express, since the
>>>Work
>>> has a very high potential to be a "supernode" [1].  Instead, you're
>>>only
>>> ever really going to want to express the inverse relationship (Book ->
>>> CreativeWork)
>> 
>> Depends what you are doing.  If you are describing the book in your
>>hand,
>> yes you would want say that it is 'instanceOf' a work described either
>>on
>> your system or at an authoritative source.
>> 
>> However, if you want to respond to a user/system trying to discover "War
>> and Peace" you may want to provide a Work-level description with several
>> 'instance' relationships to the various manifestations you have
>>available.
>> Equally the same 'instance' relationship would be applicable between a
>> manifestation description and the item instances you hold.
>> 
>> Similar situation may apply in a consortial data set with their
>>expression
>> descriptions linking to the various manifestations in their member
>> libraries.
>> 
>> 
>> ~Richard
>> 
>>> On May 17, 2013, at 11:04 AM, Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 5/17/13 5:39 AM, Ross Singer wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm all for this suggestion, assuming that the object will always be
>>>>>a
>>>>> Work.  I got the impression that this was kind of taking the same
>>>>> approach as commonThing [1], where the subjects and objects can be of
>>>>> ambiguous types, but maybe I'm conflating some unrelated threads
>>>>>here.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Ross, there has been discussion on the calls about the nature of this
>>>> relationship. Richard sees it as being a relationship between a Work
>>>>(of
>>>> a FRBR/BIBFRAME-ish nature) and an instance or example of that Work
>>>> (Manifestation). It *is* intended to be hierarchical in nature.
>>>> 
>>>> Unfortunately, schema.org does not have a class that corresponds to
>>>> this meaning of Work. CreativeWork is rather like MARC -- it has
>>>> properties for a whole range of description, which, in the whole,
>>>> describes a Manifestation with some properties that FRBR would
>>>>consider
>>>> to be Expression and Work.
>>>> 
>>>> The expected range of InstanceOf is CreativeWork, but that means that,
>>>> depending on the data that has been supplied, the CreativeWork in the
>>>> triple could have the properties of FRBR:Work, BIBFRAME:Work, or an
>>>> entire bibliographic description encompassing
>>>> FRBR:Work/Expression/Manifestation or BIBFRAME:Work/Instance.
>>>> 
>>>> Looking at it from a library point of view, one could create
>>>> CreativeWork descriptions that are essentially BIBFRAME:Work, and then
>>>> the related CreativeWork descriptions that are essentially
>>>> BIBFRAME:Instances, and use this to connect them. That means coding a
>>>> schema.org CreativeWork with physical description but no creator or
>>>> subjects (a BIBFRAME:Instance) - something that I think would only be
>>>> done by libraries.
>>>> 
>>>> To me this is all pretty shaky within the schema.org framework, and I
>>>> don't think it really belongs there. If libraries need a
>>>> library-specific way to do works and instances we should keep it out
>>>>of
>>>> schema.org.
>>>> 
>>>> My usual overly-long 2c.
>>>> 
>>>> kc
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> -Ross.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 1.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>http://dilettantes.code4lib.org/blog/2011/11/why-do-we-obsess-over-frb
>>>>>r-
>>>>> entities/
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Alf
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 16 May 2013 23:12, Wallis,Richard <Richard.Wallis@oclc.org
>>>>>> <mailto:Richard.Wallis@oclc.org>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>   Hi Alf,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>   The approach proposed was shaped by several factors including:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>     *   CreativeWork describes "The most generic kind of creative
>>>>>>   work, including books, movies, photographs, software programs,
>>>>>> etc."
>>>>>>     *   It is the super type for many specific types such as Map,
>>>>>>   Painting, Movie, Book, Sculpture, etc.
>>>>>>     * Schema.org <http://Schema.org> is a generic vocabulary with a
>>>>>>   broad consumer community therefore domain specific terms should be
>>>>>>   avoided if possible
>>>>>>     *   We have specific guidance that Schema.org
>>>>>>   <http://Schema.org> will never implement FRBR
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>   On that last point, your suggestion is leaning in a FRBR
>>>>>>   direction. I can hear the follow on "we need  manifestation & item
>>>>>>   properties"  already.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>   Expression also has certain library-ish connotations
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>   CreativeWork->work I would suggest is a little confusing as to
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>   The hasInstance / instanceOf pair were proposed as generic and
>>>>>>   directional properties.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>   Following the vote about the need of 'is', I have some sympathy
>>>>>>   with the suggestion of dropping the 'has' making it 'instance /
>>>>>>   instanceOf'
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>   ~Richard
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>   From: Alf Eaton <eaton.alf@gmail.com
>>>>>>   <mailto:eaton.alf@gmail.com><mailto:eaton.alf@gmail.com
>>>>>>   <mailto:eaton.alf@gmail.com>>>
>>>>>>   Date: Thursday, 16 May 2013 18:30
>>>>>>   To: "public-schemabibex@w3.org
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> <mailto:public-schemabibex@w3.org><mailto:public-schemabibex@w3.org
>>>>>> <mailto:public-schemabibex@w3.org>>"
>>>>>>   <public-schemabibex@w3.org
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> <mailto:public-schemabibex@w3.org><mailto:public-schemabibex@w3.org
>>>>>> <mailto:public-schemabibex@w3.org>>>
>>>>>>   Subject: Re: Voting for CreativeWork property names
>>>>>>   Resent-From: <public-schemabibex@w3.org
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> <mailto:public-schemabibex@w3.org><mailto:public-schemabibex@w3.org
>>>>>> <mailto:public-schemabibex@w3.org>>>
>>>>>>   Resent-Date: Thursday, 16 May 2013 18:30
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>   On 16 May 2013 17:55, Wallis,Richard <Richard.Wallis@oclc.org
>>>>>>   <mailto:Richard.Wallis@oclc.org><mailto:Richard.Wallis@oclc.org
>>>>>>   <mailto:Richard.Wallis@oclc.org>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I have reflected these choices in the proposal page
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>><http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/wiki/CreativeWork_Relationsh
>>>>>>ip
>>>>>> s>
>>>>>>> If people are happy with the proposal, I suggest that we should
>>>>>>   add some html examples to the turtle and then submit to
>>>>>> public-vocabs.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>   Would it be more straightforward to make is/has/of implicit and
>>>>>>   just use simple property names that read well in both directions?
>>>>>>   Like this, for example:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>   <http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38264520>
>>>>>>   <http://proposed-schema.org/work>
>>>>>>   <http://exampleworks.org/work/12345>.
>>>>>>   <http://exampleworks.org/work/12345>
>>>>>>   <http://proposed-schema.org/expression>
>>>>>>   <http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38264520>.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>   Perhaps this has been proposed and rejected already?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>   Alf
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -- 
>>>> Karen Coyle
>>>> kcoyle@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net
>>>> ph: 1-510-540-7596
>>>> m: 1-510-435-8234
>>>> skype: kcoylenet
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
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