Re: Toy proposal

There are many special properties about toys.

The National Institute for Play has some as well as the Consumer Product
Safety Commission.

If your not a Domain expert then you may often think... no big deal. :)
On Apr 16, 2015 4:43 AM, "Owen Stephens" <owen@ostephens.com> wrote:

> Ok - but there has been extensive discussion about having lots of ‘types’
> of product and I understood the general advice was to use wikidata to
> enumerate product types. What is so special about Toys that they deserve a
> type?
>
> If libraries start marking up as Toy types, how will that compare to what
> the commercial sector does when describing Toys? What difference will this
> make.
>
> Owen
>
> Owen Stephens
> Owen Stephens Consulting
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> On 16 Apr 2015, at 10:27, Wallis,Richard <Richard.Wallis@oclc.org> wrote:
>
>  In the spirit of the question, a simple answer is that they are - the
> proposed Toy type being a subtype of Product.
>
>  ~Richard
>
>  On 16 Apr 2015, at 11:16, Owen Stephens <owen@ostephens.com> wrote:
>
>  I’m going start with a simple question about Toy...
>
>  Why aren’t Toys just handled as a schema.org Product?
>
>  Owen
>
>  Owen Stephens
> Owen Stephens Consulting
>  Web: http://www.ostephens.com
> Email: owen@ostephens.com
> Telephone: 0121 288 6936
>
>  On 14 Apr 2015, at 22:26, Wallis,Richard <Richard.Wallis@oclc.org> wrote:
>
>  Hi all,
>
>  A few weeks back we discussed how this group or some of its members
> could participate as a bibliographic domain group to propose and review a
> bibliographic extension to schema.org with the current working name of
> bib.schema.org.
>
>  Since then I have been liaising with Dan Brickley and others in the main
> Schema.org <http://schema.org/> group who have been working to establish
> the hosting software that enables the extension capability.  This work is
> now close to being ready for release.  Dan has indicated that this provides
> an excellent opportunity for a bibliographic extension to be one of, if not
> the first, enabled and released in this way.  In preparation for this, Dan
> Scott and I have put together a candidate set of types and properties that
> could constitute an initial bib extension release, which this email
> introduces.
>
>  There are many potential candidates for new/enhanced types and
> properties which the finessing and accepting of which would need to be the
> subject of some in depth discussion within this group.  To take advantage
> of the opportunity to release along with the capability release, however,
> we need to agree a starting subset fairly quickly.  To that end Dan and I
> have drawn up this initial (1.0) proposal consisting of what we believe to
> be things that are fairly noncontroversial.
>
>  I list the proposed types and properties below with links to their
> representation in a development version of the Schema.org
> <http://schema.org/> site.  They are in three independent groups of
> proposals, for general bibliographic markup; some helpful things for the
> physical structure of archives & basic collections; and for comics.
>
>  We can accept/reject either individual types and properties, or a whole
> group, because we need to explore things in more depth and defer things to
> a later release.  I would hope though that fairly quickly we could come to
> at least a subset of these as an initial release.
>
>  A reminder that Dan Brickley is still working on the software capable of
> handling extensions so please view the content more than how it currently
> displays.
>
>  General Bibliographic Types & Properties
>
>    - Agent <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/Agent>
>    - Atlas <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/Atlas>
>    - Chapter <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/Chapter>
>    - Globe <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/Globe>
>    - Kit <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/Kit>
>    - Meeting <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/Meeting>
>    - Newspaper <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/Newspaper>
>    - MusicScore <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/MusicScore>
>    - PublicationSeries <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/PublicationSeries>
>    - Thesis <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/Thesis>
>    - Toy <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/Toy>
>    - BookFormatType:AudioBook <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/AudioBook>
>    - BookFormatType:LargePrintBook
>    <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/LargePrintBook>
>    - BookFormatType:PrintBook <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/PrintBook>
>    - MapCategoryType:CartographicMap
>    <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/CartographicMap>
>    - inSupportOf <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/inSupportOf>
>    - translationOfWork <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/translationOfWork>
>    - translator <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/translator>
>    - workTranslation <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/workTranslation>
>
>
>  Archive Containers/Collection
>
>    - BoxContainer <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/BoxContainer>
>    - Collection <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/Collection>
>    - Container <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/Container>
>    - FolderContainer <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/FolderContainer>
>    - Shelf <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/Shelf>
>    - contains <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/contains>
>    - containedIn <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/containedIn>
>
>
>  Comics
>
>    - ComicIssue <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/ComicIssue>
>    - ComicSeries <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/ComicSeries>
>    - ComicStory <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/ComicStory>
>    - CoverArt <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/CoverArt>
>    - ComicCoverArt <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/ComicCoverArt>
>    - BookFormatType:GraphicNovel <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/GraphicNovel>
>    - artist <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/artist>
>    - colorist <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/colorist>
>    - inker <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/inker>
>    - letterer <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/letterer>
>    - penciler <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/penciler>
>    - publisherImprint <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/publisherImprint>
>    - variantCover <http://sdo-bib.appspot.com/variantCover>
>
>
>  I look forward to comments.
>
>  ~Richard.
>
>
>
>
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