Re: Proposal for a Schema.org ‘extent’ property

Thanks for your thoughts, especially on the property name.

The nice thing about Schema.org properties is that they can all default to
a Text value and in many of the cases you describe I am sure they will.
Introducing QuantitativeValue however provides the opportunity for
specificity when it arrises, as per some of the archive oriented examples
such as a number of folders or lengths of shelving.

~Richard.

Richard Wallis
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On 31 July 2017 at 10:08, Vladimir Alexiev <vladimir.alexiev@ontotext.com>
wrote:

> This is definitely needed.
>
> I like that the name materialExtent is specific, because in museum work
> this means something very different:
> Part of object or work contributed by an agent, measured in a dimension,
> or described by a subject, or to which a material or technique statement
> applies.
>
> I'm just not sure QuantitativeValue is useful in this case because:
> - in my experience the extent texts are very unstructured and varied
> - it's not likely one would want to search or sum by extent value (unless
> you're planning a warehouse or something)
>
> Cheers!
>
>