- From: Paul Kelly <paul@xmlteam.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 11:11:00 -0500
- To: Paul Wilton <paul.wilton@ontoba.com>
- Cc: Thad Guidry <thadguidry@gmail.com>, public-vocabs@w3.org
On 2012-03-06, at 4:51 AM, Paul Wilton wrote: > A Person (or an Agent to be more correct) becomes a competitor through > a relationship with a sporting event (eg sport:Competition in the > sport ontology, or schema:SportsEvent in schema.org) - being a > competitor is temporal for the duration of the event (and of course > future and historical sporting events). > > Some more examples why vocations should not be subclasses of a Person: > If we had Actor subClassOf Person, this implies we also need Actor > subClassOf Horse and Dog (Black Beauty and Lassie) - which would mean > that John Wayne (as an instance of Actor) would also thus be a Dog and > a Horse which is clearly incorrect. The concept of an Athlete is > exactly the same. Are there other examples where the vocation is a sub-class of person in schema.org? Or is this the first time such a thing has appeared? ------------------------------------------- Paul Kelly Director, Software Development, XML Team Solutions Corp. Chair, Sports Content Working Party, IPTC
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