Re: Historical events

Shawn,

Great examples and thanks for sharing your use case !

Sometime folks find it easier when you flip things around.  Putting a
dateSank property on a Ship class/type (we don't have this in Schema.org
currently) to note when it sank.  Then knowing the startDate / endDate of
WWII, an application or search engine could query those Ship's having a
range of dateSank within the bounds of WWII.

What is easier ?  Its often B. because of a narrowed filtered list of just
Ships to begin with:
A. "query all Events with a filter of those only containing Ship events"
versus
B. "query just Ships who have a dateSank within September 1, 1939 –
September 2, 1945"

We don't have that Ship class/type as often is the case for long-tail
domains, but for now you could use Thing - additionalType: "
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11446"

-Thad


On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 6:00 PM shawn fielding <shawnmfielding@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I am brand spanking new to this listserv, and pretty new to the concept of
> schema.org altogether, so I might be breaking protocol.  Please let me
> know if I am.  Don't want to do that.
>
> But the idea of historical event as a subcategory of event seems to make a
> lot of sense to me in what I do.  I am not looking at general events,
> though being able to say "World War II" would be handy.  I am looking at
> things like when a ship was launched or when it sank as historical events.
> (Would you be able to nest events?  Like event WWII -> event "sinking"?)
> Right now event does not seem to fit this sort of thing.  I actually and
> trying to put together and propose a small, er, taxonomy(?) for vessels
> under vehicle. Seems to fit, almost.  One of the ideas I was considering
> was "date sunk."  But maybe that defeats the purpose of event itself.
>  Maybe it doesn't if I can't relate the ship to its historical event in the
> current structure.  I'm not sure how that works.  There are obviously
> people much more in the know here, so I am just throwing out these comments
> and questions to get greater clarity of how we can use schema.org to
> represent what we do effectively.
>
> Shawn Fielding, novice
>
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