Re: Proposal: Collection

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>Is this specifically library-like or cultural heritage notion of a
>collection? Or is it a general purpose data structure for listing
>bundles of things? My suspicion is that it's the latter, but it could
>easily be mistaken for a very general purpose mechanism.

You suspect correctly.  The need/approach has come the library and
associated worlds, but it is clearly applicable in a wider context.

A library has a collection of books, a museum has a collection of
artefacts, etc.   However a farmer could have a collection of animals

By making Collection a subclass of CreativeWork it does imply that the
creation of a collection would be a conscious creative act by a creating
person/organization.

However the parts of a collection would not always be creative works
themselves (fossils in a museum, toys and books in a children's library,
etc.) hense the need for isPart to be added to Thing.


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>If there's a bibliographic / cultural heritage problem we can solve
>here, while avoiding getting into heavier 'theory of parts' territory
>(e.g. http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/Mereotopology.pdf)
>I'd be happy...

I have equal aversion to diving down such deep dark rabbit holes!

Would we not avoid that by indicating that a Thing can be part of many
collections or none, a Collection can contain zero or any parts that may
or may not be in other Collections - or am I being naive? ;-)

~Richard.
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>Dan
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>> 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.
>>
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Received on Tuesday, 7 May 2013 13:12:02 UTC