Re: Proposal: Audiobook

I would like to counter suggest that we add to the Schema an
"AudioRecording" type, instead. but.... I just noticed....

The idea of an "AudioBook" is also a MediaObject already by its very
nature.  It "encodesCreativeWork" (an existing property on MediaObject)
already... its an encoding of a book in some form.

Aaron's idea of a "recording" is the same thing as the generic idea of
"encoding" in some form.  CreativeWork is a Book and also an AudioBook.




On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Wallis,Richard <Richard.Wallis@oclc.org>wrote:

>  This is a proposal from the Schema Bib Extend Group<http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/>,
> consisting of 80+ 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.
>
> Proposal:
> To create a new Type: 'Audiobook'
>
>  An audiobook is sufficiently different to other book types to warrant
> the proposal for another type.
>
>  The proposal is that Audiobook is a sub-type of *both* Book<http://schema.org/Book>
>  and AudioObject <http://schema.org/AudioObject>.  I am not sure if I
> have seen a Type in Schema that has more than one super-type before, so I
> am wondering if this is a valid approach.
>
>  Detailed proposal posted on the WebSchemas wiki: Audiobook<http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/Audiobook>
>
>
>  Richard Wallis
> Technology Evangelist, OCLC
> richard.wallis@oclc.org
>
>
>
>


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