Series, BookSeries, Periodical

Hi SchemaBibEx colleagues.

Something you might like to comment on.

There has been an active thread on public-vocabs<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-vocabs/2014Nov/0133.html> about the Series<http://schema.org/Series> type which originally came from the TV/Radio community which becomes very obvious from a brief look at its properties.

The thread has been about generalising the Series type so that it is applicable as a foundation for other series types such as VideoGameSeries.  From my point of view these attempts resulted in a proposal that was not very effective for series of Books.

After promoting a flurry of activity by expressing this opinion there has been a significant rethink, stripping Series down to a minimum and coming up with a set of sub-types including BookSeries and making Periodical a sub-type of Series.

A preview can be seen here: http://sdo-venkman.appspot.com/Series with links to the proposed sub-types.

I have made the following comment in particular reference to BookSeries:

Not sure that picking illustrator out as a specific property for BookSeries makes particular sense - its already a property of Book anyway and illustrators may well differ from book to book in a series.   I would drop it for now.

There may be BookSeries properties that could be added at a later date - seriesEditor comes to mind - but perhaps identifying them at a later date may be more appropriate.

They want to move quickly on this as it’s part of a wider release that has been waiting a while.

Please comment either directly to the thread on public-vocabs or via me if you find that easier.

~Richard