Re: Accessibility for schema.org Re: Updated Wiki to cover proposal

perhaps bear in mind that the ISO standard, for example, will want to  
allow for extensions, in the refinement way to maintain structure, so  
I agree that lists of literal values could be tricky ...

Liddy

On 19/11/2013, at 7:47 AM, Dan Brickley wrote:

> On 18 November 2013 13:36, Charles McCathie Nevile
> <chaals@yandex-team.ru> wrote:
>> On Tue, 19 Nov 2013 02:44:39 +0800, Peter F. Patel-Schneider
>> <pfpschneider@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> schema.org has enumerated types, which might be better to use than  
>>> text
>>> with a list of expected strings.
>>
>>
>> Yes, that was what I was thinking... We should make that change.
>
> I'm not so convinced yet. There are quite a lot of values, and given
> schema.org's flat namespace we would have to consider each term as
> _the_ schema.org use of that word.
>
> e.g. MathML; sound; captions; latex; timing etc. would become
> http://schema.org/sound ...
>
> My inclination (especially having seen the variety of views earlier in
> these discussions) is that allowing Text and also allowing values
> represented by URL might be the right combination. Schema.org's
> enumerations work best for short, rigid, fixed lists that won't evolve
> or get extended...
>
> Dan
>

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