RE: Proposal: VisualArtwork

I second that.

From: Guha [mailto:guha@google.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 3:43 PM
To: lazarus@lazaruscorporation.co.uk
Cc: W3C Vocabularies
Subject: Re: Proposal: VisualArtwork

I agree. This is a good idea and a simple addition.

If there aren't objections, we will include it in the next draft.

guha

On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Paul Watson <lazarus@lazaruscorporation.co..uk<mailto:lazarus@lazaruscorporation.co.uk>> wrote:
Hi,

This is a proposal for a new Type: Thing > CreativeWork > VisualArtwork

I am aware that there are already sub-Types for "Painting", "Sculpture", and "Photograph", but this doesn't seem like a viable way forward. There are many other types of artwork (printmaking, drawing, collage, assemblage, digital art, etc.) and it seems illogical to create new Types for each artform..

So my proposal is for the 'VisualArtwork' Type to be used instead of "Painting" or "Sculpture", and instead of "Photograph" where the photograph in question is being presented in context as an artwork as opposed to forensic photography, etc.

A number of additional properties enable would allow a wider range of visual artwork media to use this type. These properties are:

* artform (e.g. Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Print, Photograph, Assemblage, Collage, etc.)
* materials (e.g. Oil, Watercolour, Linoprint, Marble, Cyanotype, Digital, Lithograph, Pencil, Mixed Media, etc.)
* surface (e.g. Canvas, Paper, Wood, Board, etc.)
* width (an instance of http://schema.org/Distance)
* height (an instance of http://schema.org/Distance)
* depth (an instance of http://schema.org/Distance)
* edition (For multiples such as prints, the number of copies in the edition)

As you can see, rather than having many different subTytpes of Creative work for paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, collages, tapestry, etc, the VisualArtwork proposal allows the artform to be designated under the new "artform" property.

I have written up the proposed new VisualArtwork type at http://new-media.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/2013/05/2nd-draft-an-idea-for-an-alternative-schema-org-type-for-artwork/

I would be interested to hear whether this proposal would have any support? Apart from implementing microdata and RDFa Lite on website this is my first foray into serious thought about extending schemas, and I won't be offended by any criticism!

Paul