Proposal: Collection

This is the second proposal from the Schema Bib Extend
Group<http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/>, consisting of 60+ people
from a broad cross section of publishers, libraries, and others interested
in enhancing Schema.org's capabilities in the area of bibliographic and
associated resources.

Proposal:
To create a new Type: 'Collection' and two new properties for Thing and/or
CreativeWork


Details:

New Type: Collection
This is a collection in the broadest and simplest possible sense. It is a
set of things. The things in a collection may be thought of as its
"parts", even though the membership could be ephemeral.

Sub-classed to: Thing > CreativeWork > Collection
Properties likely to be used from CreativeWork
* about (e.g. for collection themes)
* contentLocation (e.g. for museum/archive collections)
* creator (e.g. for collection curators)

New property for CreativeWork (or perhaps for Thing)
As a matter of principle, anything imaginable can be thought of has having
parts. Although we are primarily interested in this property for sake of
modelling collections and multi-part works, a broader treatment as a
property of schema:Thing would be appreciated.
* Property: hasPart
* Expected Type: Thing
* Description: A thing that is part of this CreativeWork. For example
things in a collection or parts in a multi-part work

New property for Thing
This is the same schema:isPartOf property as currently found in the
http://schema.org/WebPage class with schema:CollectionPage as the range.
We would like it promoted for broader use, particularly in this case, for
use with a Collection Type.
* Property: isPartOf
* Expected Type: CreativeWork or Thing(dependant on choice for hasPart)
* Description: Inverse of hasPart

More information and some examples can be found on the SchemaBibExtend
Wiki <http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/wiki/Collection>.

~Richard.

Received on Tuesday, 7 May 2013 11:47:25 UTC