Re: Country, external ennumeration?

I like the idea of allowing values to cross domains as appropriate, so that
we are not having to create more and more values to get around namespace
issues.

While I agree that canceled is related to actions, I don't know that we
should force authors to jump through hoops to write their markup. For many
use cases, I have an Order, Event, etc that I simply want to mark as
canceled. Having to create an Action to wrap around my data seems awkward.
While we are flushing out Actions, I hope we are able to avoid complicating
the simple case.

- Vicki


Vicki Tardif Holland | Ontologist | vtardif@google.com



On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Thad Guidry <thadguidry@gmail.com> wrote:

> In this case, the notion of "canceled" is a fairly concrete meaning
> semantically across almost all domains, I would say.  So it should be
> global in aspect for anyone wanting to use it.
>
> Having said that.. Canceled is action specific.  And we already have the
> idea of it ... here: http://schema.org/CancelAction
>
> See the full hierarchy as well, thus far :
> http://schema.org/docs/full.html
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Justin Boyan <jaboyan@google.com> wrote:
>
>> I agree that the use of schema.org/Enumeration, vs. external
>> enumerations, is confusing.
>>
>> I would like to raise a related proposal, to make it easier to define and
>> use internal Enumerations.  Currently all enumeration values are defined in
>> the global top-level schema.org namespace.  For example, each value of
>> the MedicalSpecialty <http://schema.org/MedicalSpecialty> enumeration,
>> such as http://schema.org/Nursing, is a top-level entity.  It therefore
>> conflicts with any other proposed enumerations that might want to use
>> Nursing as a value, or for that matter any proposed type named
>> schema.org/Nursing.   This isn't just a theoretical concern - there are
>> currently at least three enumeration proposals (OrderStatus, ActionStatus,
>> EventStatus) that all want to use "Canceled" as an enum value, but those
>> notions of canceled can't be defined and documented separately given the
>> global namespace.
>>
>> Proposal: can we define a local namespace for internal enumerations?  How
>> about a fragment naming scheme, like
>> http://schema.org/OrderStatus#Canceled  and
>> http://schema.org/EventStatus#Canceled ? That scheme would also improve
>> our documentation, keeping all the enum values and their descriptions
>> organized on a single web page corresponding to their type. In markup, we
>> could arrange to accept "Canceled" or "#Canceled" as shorthand entries for
>> the enum value.
>>
>> Justin
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Willem-Siebe Spoelstra <
>> wsspoelstra@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, on this schema.org blogpost<http://blog.schema.org/2012/05/schemaorg-markup-for-external-lists.html> I
>>> read the follwing:
>>>
>>> Each schema.org type (such as Person <http://schema.org/Person>,
>>>> PostalAddress <http://schema.org/PostalAddress>) is associated with a
>>>> set of properties, such as
>>>> "nationality", "addressCountry". In turn, each property has one or more
>>>> expected types; in this case, both the "nationality" of a Person, and the
>>>> "addressCountry" of a PostalAddress <http://schema.org/PostalAddress> expect
>>>> to have a Country <http://schema.org/Country>value
>>>
>>>
>>> So I took a look at the example in the same blogpost, and the specify
>>> the country like this:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> <link itemprop="nationality" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States"/>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> When I read this blogpost <http://blog.schema.org/2012/11/good-relations-and-schemaorg.html> about Schema.org and Goodrelations, this is explained like:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   general approach for referencing 'external enumerations<http://blog.schema.org/2012/05/schemaorg-markup-for-external-lists.html>
>>>> '.
>>>
>>>
>>> However, when I look at the itemtype 'Country'<http://schema.org/Country>,
>>> which is the expected type for the item properties 'nationality' and
>>> 'addressCountry', I don't see anything explaining the above...
>>>
>>> It only tells me:
>>>
>>> A country
>>>
>>>
>>> I do see a list of properties, but the best option there is to use
>>> 'name' from 'Thing', which in that case should be 'text' just putting down
>>> the name of the country. Nobody is explaining me that I have to link to,
>>> for example, WikiPedia as explained in the blogpost.
>>>
>>> So, what's the best practise here?
>>>
>>> And why is 'Country' not a more specif type of Enumeration,
>>> http://schema.org/Enumeration,
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Willem
>>>
>>>
>>
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