Re: New guy questions / location where content was created

Hi Michael -

Thanks for the feedback - very interesting to see the IPTC link.

I'm not sure dateline fills the need, as it is a text property. Is it
possible to define dateline as a geocoordinate?
http://schema.org/GeoCoordinates

Using a geocoordinate would help accomodate current digital pictures, many
of which have this information built into their EXIF data.

Azimuth is also critical, as even a basic dateline in a city (corner of 4th
and Vine) wouldn't tell me which direction the picture was looking - e.g.
assuming E-W and N-S street directions, "looking East down Vine from 4th,"
or even "looking at the NW corner of 4th & Vine from the SE corner of 4th &
Vine." For historical photographs, this can help software engines build
historical perspectives and composites much more quickly.

Another new guy question - is there a reason "MediaObject" is defined as
something on the web? I would think schemas are trying to describe items in
the real world, even if they are not available on the web.

Thanks!
Jeff



On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Michael Steidl (IPTC)
<mdirector@iptc.org>wrote:

> Hi Jeff****
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> Re “creationLocation”: actually the property you request exists – but not
> as requested by you.****
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> The facts:****
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> **-          **The NewsArticle class of schema.org (
> http://schema.org/NewsArticle) has a property named dateline and the
> definition “The location where the NewsArticle was produced.”
> The name “dateline” is inherited from an old tradition to start news with
> “New York (AP) 10 December 2012 – Mr Doe said …”
> which includes the date but also typically the location.****
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> **-          **From what you write I infer that you want to apply this
> property to photos, which is a MediaObject in general and an ImageObject in
> particular. Unfortunately none of these classes has such a dateline or
> something similar.****
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> **-          **The IPTC Photo Metadata standard has a Location Created
> property and it would be great to have an equivalent property in
> schema.org. I would like to add that the IPTC standard as another
> property: locationShown which defined the place you can see in the picture.
> Primarily for nature photos these places (where created, what is shown)
> could be quite different. But locationShown can be expressed by using the
> about property of the CreativeWork class of schema.org.****
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> The solutions I propose for discussion are:****
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> **a)      **Move the dateline up the class hierarchy and make it a
> property of CreativeWork
> OR****
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> **b)      **Add a property locationCreated  to the MediaObject class.****
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> Michael****
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> *Michael Steidl*
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> Managing Director of the IPTC [mdirector@iptc.org]****
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> International Press Telecommunications Council
> Web: www.iptc.org - on Twitter @IPTC <http://www.twitter.com/IPTC>****
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> *From:* Jeff Meyer [mailto:jeff@gwhat.org]
> *Sent:* Friday, December 07, 2012 10:25 PM
> *To:* public-vocabs@w3.org
> *Subject:* New guy questions****
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> Hi - ****
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> New guy trying to learn more here.****
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> Looking for where I can go to find answers to questions like:****
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> > Why is there no schema for thing->manmade->structure or
> thing->manmade->structure->building? (all the schema seem to want to jump
> straight to what type of building, e.g. Thing > Place > CivicStructure)***
> *
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> > How do I extend the global schema.org schema to add things like
> creationLocation (e.g. where was the photograph taken?) and creationAzimuth
> (e.g. which direction was the camera pointing?)?****
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> I realize these are basic questions, but the information at schema.orgseems a bit limited & dead end. For example, I understand that I can extend
> schema on my own (http://schema.org/docs/extension.html), but
> creationLocation seems to be pretty common and generic & I'd hate to do
> stuff differently from the way others are doing it. (e.g. what's the
> location for a picture of the Grand Canyon or Mount Everest?).****
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> Do I need to submit proposals at
> http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/SchemaDotOrgProposals?****
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> Thanks!****
>
> Jeff
> ****
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> --
> Jeff Meyer
> Global World History Atlas
> www.gwhat.org
> jeff@gwhat.org
> 206-676-2347
>
> ****
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jeff@gwhat.org
206-676-2347