- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2016 15:17:39 +0100
- To: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Cc: "schema.org Mailing List" <public-schemaorg@w3.org>
On 9 September 2016 at 15:04, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to use the term "brand" in some of my data with a text literal.
>
> Basically the reason is half laziness half to save complexity
>
> SO I'd like to do:
>
> <#playlist> schema : brand "Disney"
>
> as text instead of linking to a URI
>
> https://schema.org/brand
>
> Looking at the description there text is not allowed.
>
> 1. If I decide to "cheat" (maybe as a stop gap until I can make something
> better) ... would this be a big problem?
> 2. Alternatively is there some other term that could be used that takes a
> text field,
> 3. or finally would it make any sense to allow brands to also be text
> values?
>
> Thanks in advance!
http://schema.org/docs/datamodel.html has our language on
semi-expecting 'strings' where we are officially expecting 'things'.
Why not just do something like ... "brand": { "name": "Disney" } ?
(or even type it Brand or Organization if you can spare an extra triple)
Dan
Received on Friday, 9 September 2016 14:18:08 UTC