Re: Integer DataType

Thank you very much, Taush and Ryan.

Andreu Sulé Duesa
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Missatge de Taush Sampley <taushsampley@gmail.com> del dia dt., 9 de des.
2025 a les 3:37:

> It's a matter of individuals communicating the same idea in slightly
> different ways. Every type that we're talking about in this context refers
> to data, so "(Data) Type" could be considered redundant, because no one is
> going to be confused that we're suddenly talking about pokemon types just
> because we didn't say "data" first. It's very easy to understand the
> confusion for ESL speakers since English does annoyingly use qualified and
> unqualified forms of the same word to refer to *entirely* different ideas.
>
> Saludos cordiales,
> Taush Sampley
>
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM Ryan Levering <rrlevering@google.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Those descriptions are generated from manual strings/comments in the
>> RDFS, so there is no intentional difference in those two AFAIK.  I agree
>> that consistency would be good, but could see an argument for using either.
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 8, 2025 at 6:02 AM Andreu Sulé <andreusule@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have a question about the definition of https://schema.org/Integer .
>>> Why does it say "A Schema.org Type" and not "A Schema.org DataType"? In
>>> fact, Integer is a subtype of https://schema.org/Number, which does say
>>> "A Schema.org Data Type".
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Andreu Sulé Duesa
>>> Departament de Biblioteconomia, Documentació i Comunicació Audiovisual
>>> Facultat d’Informació i Mitjans Audiovisuals. Universitat de Barcelona
>>> Tel. 93 4035788
>>> ORCID: 0000-0002-2467-3678 <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2467-3678>
>>> ISNI: 0000000419276461 <https://isni.org/isni/0000000419276461>
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>>>
>>