Bibex Entry for Poetry [via Schema Bib Extend Community Group]

I'm not sure if I should be making blog posts in this group, so someone stop me
if I'm wrong.

We need to come up with a way for formatting Poems and Poetry in Schema. Poetry
as a physical entity can be a genre of a book and can inherit many of Book's
properties, so I don't think there's an issue there. Poem on the other hand
seems to want to be a child of CreativeWork unto itself.

However in this e-mail chain a TextObject was proposed, which is also another
good idea. Either TextObject or Poem would have to include (and this is only
for the sake of poetry), form (villanelle, sonnet, etc), school or genre
(Modernist, Confessional, New Formalist, Slam), line count, and the rest of the
properties could be taken from CreativeWork: author, language, translation, etc,
and some from AudioObject: a recording, and some from Periodical: publish date.

Of the terms form and school, I think form is really the only one that has to
be included for poetry's sake. School (or mode, even) could be called genre, but
if we make Poetry a genre of Book then we're going to have sub-genres (which is
ok, I guess).

If we were to extend this TextObject to prose, we would could extend to creative
non-fiction, flash-fiction, essay, etc, through the use of genre (or mode).

Anyway these are ideas, I warmly welcome suggestions on ways to fit this into
Bibex. I'm new to all of this.

- Taylor



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