Re: schema.org weekend reading: Actions/Activities; Audience draft, and Class/Property.

On Nov 30, 2012, at 12:21 PM, "Ivan Herman" <ivan@w3.org> wrote:

> Dan,
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> a very specific additional step:
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> [snip]
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>> 3. Class/Property
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>> There are several cases (including the above-mentioned Actions draft)
>> where it is useful within schema.org to have a first class type
>> representing the notion of 'Class', and of 'Property'. This is rather
>> meta and while it is not something designed for mainstream webmasters
>> to encounter, it will help with structuring and documenting the
>> vocabulary.
>> 
>> I have written up a proposal for adding these (and aliasing them to
>> rdfs:Class, rdf:Property) at
>> http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/SchemaDotOrgMetaSchema  ...alongside
>> a proposal to use schema.org/domainIncludes and
>> schema.org/rangeIncludes in our RDFa representation of the schema.
> 
> What this also means is that the registry (see also [1,2]) used for the microdata->RDF conversion at
> 
> http://www.w3.org/ns/md
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> should be extended for schema.org with:
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> 'Class'    : { subPropertyOf: http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Class }
> 'Property' : { subPropertyOf: http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#Property }
> 
> Correct? If so, I will add those.

Yeah, that sounds right.

I'd also like to see entailment rules for domainIncludes and rangeIncludes. Sounds lie there's an implied owl:unionOf in there someplace.

Gregg

> Ivan
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> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-microdata-rdf-20121009/#vocabulary-registry
> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-microdata-rdf-20121009/#vocabulary-expansion
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