Re: For review: Schema.org/Discussion

Hi all,

Happy new year as well - happy to see the discussion back!

There are also mappings on github that we've contributed few months ago

https://github.com/mhausenblas/schema-org-rdf/blob/master/mappings/sioc.ttl

Hope that helps

Alex.




On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 3:31 PM, John Breslin <john.breslin@nuigalway.ie>wrote:

>  Happy New Year everyone!
>
> Charlie, all – I’ve been thinking a little bit more about this (six months
> later!) and I think it would be good to follow the model used by blogs in
> schema.org, (Blog and BlogPosting) but tailor this towards forums by
> having the thread or discussion linking the forum to the forum post.
>
> Forums are a little bit different because in threads, posts have more
> equal importance (whether they are starter or reply posts) whereas in blogs
> the original blog post is the important bit.
>
> Here’s one idea.
>
> Class Forum (similar to Blog, subtype of CreativeWork)
>   Property thread -> Thread
>
> Class Thread (or Discussion as proposed by Charlie)
>   Property post -> Post
>
> Class Post (or ForumPost)
>   Need to figure out how to type some of these as Questions / Answers /
> BestAnswers
>   I think you were looking for this too Charlie; we have this in SIOC Types
>
> This is similar to the structure of most forums and also allows for easy
> markup of Posts within Thread pages and Threads within Forum listings.
>
> We’ve started putting together a document showing terms from SIOC and
> relationships to existing schema.org terms – see
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xZpSXXI-3TH7A2eTSyoy-F6xw-VBz25SmFdVtcSMLcU/edit#
>
> Best regards,
>
> John.
> --
> On 14/06/2012 11:38, "John Breslin" <john.breslin@nuigalway.ie> wrote:
>
> Hi Charlie, all -
>
> Great stuff!
>
> Actually we have been looking into how to better align SIOC (
> http://rdfs.org/sioc/spec) with Schema.org and we would like to produce a
> draft review of terms from both sides to see if alignment is possible.
>
> A little bit about SIOC as you may not be aware of it...
>
> SIOC is a schema for describing social web content (posts, comments,
> forums, blogs, etc.) - it’s been in development for nearly eight years and
> is currently one of the formats used by Drupal 7 along and various other
> applications/sites.
>
> I recently gave a talk about SIOC data (see slides at
> http://www.slideshare.net/Cloud/20110426a-amsterdam-ifipsnsci from April)
> and according to the recent CommonCrawl dataset, SIOC terms like
> UserAccount, Comment and BlogPost are found in the top 20 most
> commonly-used RDFa types.
>
> We would be very interested in figuring out what we can do to accommodate
> all proposals, even modifying SIOC terms where appropriate.
>
> I will send some more details shortly.
>
> Thanks!
>
> John
>
>
>
> On 02/06/2012 17:36, "Charlie Jiang" <chjiang@microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>
> We've put forth a preliminary proposal for Shema.org/Discussion. It can be
> found at http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/DiscussionSchema.
>
> This proposal is initially for supporting technical discussions. However,
> we do see the need to make it domain agnostic. We would love to have your
> feedback.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Charlie
>
>
>
>
>
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