Re: Proposal: Promote 'citation' property up to CreativeWork

+1 No objections to promoting 'citation' property.  Get 'er done. :)


On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 6:44 AM, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org> wrote:

> On 7 May 2013 12:26, Wallis,Richard <Richard.Wallis@oclc.org> wrote:
> > In reflection of the silence around this proposal - do I need to add it
> to
> > a Wiki page or something?
>
> It sounds like a perfectly sensible suggestion. If you wouldn't mind
> making a little page in
> http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/SchemaDotOrgProposals patterned
> after the others, it would help track things.
>
> (Hmm I see the W3C Wiki template system seems not to be working for us
> any more; the page headers aren't working as they used to)
>
> Anyway, let's go ahead with this. I don't think it needs a huge amount
> of discussion.
>
> Does anyone here think it would be a *bad* idea to promote the
> 'citation' property to be usable with any CreativeWork?
>
> Note (to offset any potential objections...) that this does not mean
> (a) all creative works _must_ have a citation property (b) nor will it
> stand in the way of us coming up with more expressive ways to model
> different types of inter-work citations.
>
> Dan
>
> > ~Richard
> >
> > On 22/03/2013 11:13, "Wallis,Richard" <Richard.Wallis@oclc.org> wrote:
> >
> >>This is the first 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.
> >>
> >>We are working on several proposals.  However this appeared to be an
> >>obvious, simple, uncontroversial proposal to start with.
> >>
> >>Proposal:
> >>To promote the 'citation' property, currently on the
> >>MedicalScholarlyArticle<http://schema.org/MedicalScholarlyArticle> Type,
> >>up to the CreativeWork<http://schema.org/CreativeWork> Type.   Many more
> >>creative work types other than medical, or general, scholarly articles
> >>can and do cite other works.
> >>
> >>Although the focus of our group's proposal is obviously bibliographic
> >>works, this change could open up wider opportunities for web pages, music
> >>(sampling of tracks?), art (description of a collage?), etc.
> >>
> >>More detail of the proposal is available on the group wiki:
> >>http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/wiki/Citation
> >>
> >>Regards,
> >>Richard
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
>


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