Re: Comment versus UserComments

Thanks to both of you for getting this kicked off.

Here are some examples of pages that I think could guide this:

http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32069983&postID=7424272840613555167
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/18/keystone-pipeline-obama-administration_n_1213136.html[at
the bottom]
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/f-b-i-makes-insider-trading-arrests/[inside
the comment block inserted by Javascript]
http://sportsnation.espn.go.com/fans/mooseisbeast3599/
http://www.youtube.com/user/4thawt/feed

Some of those are comments, some of those are favorites or likes, etc.

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:21, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org> wrote:

> Thanks Daniel for raising this, and Stéphane for digging out the
> previous discussion.
>
> Let's get this fixed. I've raised an issue to track this as
> https://www.w3.org/2011/webschema/track/issues/12
> with the summary "Comment is under UserInteractions not CreativeWork;
> the former focus on aggregation". This does not capture all the
> nuances but I've linked the full threads from the tracker.
>
> Couple of brief points for now:
>
> 1. Even though we don't assert that Comment is subclass of
> CreativeWork, we also don't anywhere assert that no comments are
> CreativeWorks. It might be there are some idioms where treating some
> comments as creative works in this way is useful.
> 2. Yes, Schema.org's use of plurality for class (and property) names
> is unconventional. I've amended
> https://www.w3.org/2011/webschema/track/issues/5 (which is about
> plural usage in property names) to note the class situation needs
> handling too.
>
> Can we get a couple of sample real-world pages that can guide our
> decisions here? Stéphane - do you have something from Drupal 7 maybe?
>
> cheers,
>
> Dan
>