Using textual content with properties expecting typed entities, was: Re: ethicsPolicy

Many people may not be aware of that, but: 

Whenever you want to express the value for the property in a Web Ontology as a text or define a new value for an enumeration, it is perfectly valid to simply create a local instance of a compatible value type and use e.g. schema:description and schema:name to hold the text.

Not all consumers of data may understand this, and some application-specific validators may complain, but it is a perfectly valid modeling approach. And it has been proposed for e.g. product model data and incremental enrichment for 15 years now [1].

In particular in the age of LLMs, having small amounts of textual content in the scope of a typed entity should go a long way.

Like so:

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type" : "Organization",
  "url" : "http://www.your-company-site.com",
  "name": "The ACME Anvil Experts Ltd.",
  "ethicsPolicy": {
    "@type": "CreativeWork",
    "name": "ACME Anvil Experts Ethical Policy Statement",
    "description": "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.",
    "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative"
  }
}
</script>

You could also define a globally unique ID for a new value and link to an external definition, like so

"availability": 
  {
    "@id": "https://myownschema.com/CookedToOrder",
    "@type": "ItemAvailability",
    "description": "Indicates that the menu will be prepared while you are waiting.",
    "name": "CookedToOrder"
},

and hence link to a globally unique identifier.

Instead of name and description, rdfs:label and rdfs:comment could be used.

The same holds for site-specific additional classes and properties.


Best wishes
Martin

[1] http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/Modeling_Product_Models#recipe_incremental_enrichment



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> On 5. Dec 2024, at 15:37, Ryan Levering <rrlevering@google.com> wrote:
> 
> That's a very thorough answer, but I think my short answer would be that you probably don't want to embed something as complex as an ethicsPolicy in a single string.  So you either have a webpage that describes it (and a URL link to it) or you are putting it in a more complete, structured form on that page.
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> On Thu, Dec 5, 2024 at 5:15 AM Jan Philipp Maybach <jan.philipp@texxturum.com> wrote:
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> Thanks a ton.
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> I can go from here, I guess.
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