Re: Use of ContentURL in the ImageObject example on schema.org

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Aaron Bradley <aaranged@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Excuse the repost.  My original email somehow encoded the message in an
> attachment.
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> On the page detailing ImageObject:
> http://schema.org/ImageObject
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> The following example is given:
> <img src="mexico-beach.jpg" itemprop="contentURL" />
>
> On MediaObject (http://schema.org/MediaObject) we have another example of
> contentURL use.
> <meta itemprop="contentURL" content="
> http://media.freesound.org/[snip]....preview.mp3" />
>
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> The expected type of contentURL is "URL."  All fine and well.  Except that
> under the description field schema.org says:
> "Actual bytes of the media object, for example the image file or video
> file."
>

That's meant to differentiate the URL of the media file rather than the URL
of its landing page.  Clearly, the wording could be improved.


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> Wouldn't one expect a number here, then?  Or is the description incorrect?
>
> Or am I missing something?  The reference to the "image file or video file"
> again seems to support URL as the type, but "bytes" does not.
>
> By-the-by I sometimes see more obvious errors on schema.org (thinks like
> typos); is this list the most effective way of communicating those?
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