Re: Historical Events

So, sketching something on the back of a metaphorical envelope...

.... Trying to markup a book which dealt with several time periods and 
included both scientific explanation and advocacy. All sorts and styles 
of dates/periods would be involved and the scientific/historical 
significance attached to the different arguments would depend on the 
"reviewers" (and historians) viewpoint. It's probably therefore a 
difficult case....

The markup diverges from Allison's summary (I've played with Historical 
and ScientificSignificance instead of historicalEntity and included a 
significance property). Also don't expect that the marked up details are 
dependable... Can be used as a bad example; something to be improved...

{
     "@context" : "https://schema.org" ,
     "@type" : [ "Book", "HistoricalSignificance" ] ,
     "@id" : 
"https://some.untrustworthymarkup.org/book/wonderful_life_stephen_jay_gould" 
,
     "name" : "Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of 
History" ,
     "description" : "Palaeontology, Evolution and the Cambrian 
Explosion of life" ,
     "significance" : "The book provides an accessible reinterpretation 
of the fossils from the Burgess Shale, their impact on the evolutionary 
understanding and challenges the assumption that evolution is a synonym 
for progress" ,
     "author" : "Stephen Jay Gould" ,
     "award" : [ "Rhone-Poulenc Prize";  "Forkosch Award" ] ,
     "isbn" : "0-393-02705-8" ,
     "datePublished" : 1989 ,
     "about" : [
     {
         "@type" : [ "Period", "HistoricalSignificance" ] ,
         "name" : "Cambrian Explosion" ,
         "sameAs" : [ "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q32919" , 
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrian_explosion" ] ,
         "approximateStartDate" : "approx 541 million years ago" ,
         "approximateDuration" : "approx 20 to 26 million years" ,
         "significance" : "Period when most major animal phyla appeared 
in the fossil record"
     },{
         "@type" : [ "Event", "ScientificSignificance" ] ,
         "name" : "Discovery of the Burgess Shale" ,
         "startDate" : "1886" ,
         "sameAs" : 
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Burgess_Shale" ,
         "significance" : "Burgess shale holds an rich collection of 
fossils from the early Cambrian period"
     },{
         "@type" : "ScholarlyArticle" ,
         "name" : "Punctuated equilibria: an alternative to phyletic 
gradualism" ,
         "datePublished" : "1972" ,
         "url" : "http://www.somosbacteriasyvirus.com/phyletic.pdf" ,
         "significance" : {
             "@type" : [ "HistoricalSignificance", 
"ScientificSignificance" ] ,
             "significance" : "Defined a turning point in the approach 
to evolution; moving from considering evolution as a gradual continuous 
process to one that has rare bursts of evolutionary change" ,
             "sameAs" : 
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuated_equilibrium" ,
         }
     }];
     "mentions" : [
     {
         "@type" : "Period" ,
         "name" : "Not sure what to call this" ,
         "description" : "The period as people realised that the 
increasing number of known species would not fit in the Ark"
     },{
         "@type" : "Painting" ,
         "name" : "The Road to Homo Sapiens" ,
         "creator" : "Rudolph Zallinger" ,
         "dateCreated" : "1965" ,
         "sameAs" : "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_of_Progress"
     }]
}

.... and I think I'm missing a way of marking up a Scientific Theory

Regards,

    Webfeet
    "roleName":"Interested Observer" ....

Received on Saturday, 30 June 2018 06:24:31 UTC