Re: Toy proposal

When is a Toy not a Product - When drawing up the list several potential subtypes, that trawling library data identified, were dropped. Things such as DVD, LPRecord because they were just individual types of product (carrier in library parlance).  Game was dropped because it has already appeared in the Schema.org<http://schema.org/> core.  Toy was left in as it was more a category of product, many products puppet,  jigsaw, etc., can also be a toy.  The proposal, recognising this, proposed  a Product subtype with no extra properties.  May be at a later date further her work would suggest ageRange an other Toy properties.

One counter option could be to define a Toy as the Product that it actually is (puppet, etc.) and multi-type it as also being a <http://www.productontology.org/doc/Toy>

Owen: Suggest this needs posting to the ‘Toy’ thread I started

done!


~Richard

On 16 Apr 2015, at 17:02, Owen Stephens <owen@ostephens.com<mailto:owen@ostephens.com>> wrote:


On 16 Apr 2015, at 15:54, Thad Guidry <thadguidry@gmail.com<mailto:thadguidry@gmail.com>> wrote:

Now, let's get back to the Toy EXTENSION (not Proposal) needs.

What properties do you feel are necessary for that Domain and folks that touch that Domain (including libraries) ?

I think this is the question I was trying to ask of those supporting the inclusion of a Toy type in this extension.

I’m coming up empty - I think Toys can be adequately described to the extent libraries need to describe them using existing schema.org<http://schema.org/> types and properties. Taking the first item in Jeff’s previous ‘Toy’ examples from WorldCat (http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=dog#x0%253Atoy-format)

Forgive any errors in the markup but wouldn’t this suffice:

{
  "@context": "http://schema.org<http://schema.org/>",
  "@id": "#product",
  "@type": "IndividualProduct",
  "additionalType": "http://www.productontology.org/id/Toy",
  "description": “Dog hand puppet : plush fabric, b&w ; 29 cm., in plastic hang-up bag 39 cm x 26 cm.",
  "name": "Dog",
  "manufacturer": [
    {
        "@type": "Organization",
        "name": "Elka",
        "address": {
         "@type": "Postal Address",
         "addressLocality": "Sydney, N.S.W."
        }
    }
  ],
  "releaseDate": "2012"
}