Re: Class inheritance and storing data

Hi James,

Your assumption is correct.


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On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 at 17:29, James Hudson <jameshudson3010@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a fairly simple question and I am not sure what the correct answer
> is.
>
> The http://schema.org/about property has a range of sch:Thing.
>
> Picking a random class from schema.org: https://schema.org/GameServer
>
> Because sch:GameServer inherits from sch:Thing, would it be appropriate to
> store instance data of sch:GameServer inside of a sch:about property?
>
> For example, would something like this be appropriate:
>
> TTL:
>
> @prefix sch: <http://schema.org/> .
>
> <http:///example.org/asdgjkj> a sch:CommunicateAction ;
>     sch:about [ a sch:GameServer ;
>             sch:playersOnline "42" ] .
>
>
> JSON-LD:
>
> {
>   "@context": {
>         "sch": "http://schema.org/",
>         "about": "http://schema.org/about",
>         "GameServer": "http://schema.org/GameServer",
>         "playersOnline": "http://schema.org/playersOnline",
>         "ex": "http:/example.org/"
>   },
>   "@id": "ex:asdgjkj",
>   "@type": "CommunicateAction",
>   "about": {
>     "@type": "GameServer",
>     "playersOnline": "42"
>   }
> }
>
> I believe I am making an incorrect assumption from my Object Oriented
> Programming background and assuming that inheritance works basically the
> same way in this space.
>
> Or, would this be a valid use of schema.org terms?
>
> Regards,
> James
>
>