- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:17:46 +0200
- To: public-vocabs <public-vocabs@w3.org>
- Cc: "Evain, Jean-Pierre" <evain@ebu.ch>, yves Raimond <Yves.Raimond@bbc.co.uk>
A few of us have been discussing informally some possibilities for improving Schema.org's description of TV. I have put some notes in our Wiki at http://www.w3.org/wiki/SchemaDotOrgTV Excerpting briefly, "'"At launch, Schema.org contained basic vocabulary for describing TV-related entities. TVEpisode: director, actors, producer, trailer, productionCompany, partOfTVSeries, partOfSeason, episodeNumber, musicBy TVSeason: trailer, episodes, partOfTVSeries, seasonNumber, numberOfEpisodes, startDate, endDate TVSeries: director, actors, producer, trailer, productionCompany, episodes, seasons, numberOfEpisodes, musicBy, startDate, endDate Movie: duration, director, actors, producer, trailer, productionCompany, musicBy This captures a lot of existing structured data available in the consumer-facing Web. However it is missing some pieces that are already available in structured data form.""" This is a good start, but there are various other things to be said about TV episodes, series/seasons (plus some internationalisation issues on terminology). Talking with Jean-Pierre and Yves confirms my suspicion that there is useful work to be done here. The Wiki does not capture the entire picture but hopefully is enough to get discussions started. For example, how best to describe broadcasts, availabilities, segments/tracklists; where we want to keep track not only of when something is available, but also the country/territory in which it is being made available. This is a very common situation in online TV, since broadcast rights are partitioned by geography, even while the metadata is available globally... cheers, Dan
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