Re: Proposal: Audiobook

I completely agree that there isn't a single solution that will work in all
cases. I think we should just use a pragmatic (i.e., case by case) analysis.

guha


On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net> wrote:

> Guha,
>
> The discussion is about the difference between ontology definition and
> instance creation. When is it appropriate to define multiple types in the
> ontology definition vs. assigning multiple types to an instance?
>
> To librarians this is the "pre-coordinated vs. post-coordinated" issue,
> but for non-librarians it probably makes more sense to talk about comparing
> complex and "complete" concepts vs. modular and combinable concepts.
>
> I don't think there is a single answer because it is contextual, but I can
> see some advantages in creating simple ontology definitions that can be
> combined in various ways at the time of instance creation.
>
> kc
>
>
>
>
> On 9/25/13 6:50 AM, Guha wrote:
>
>> Clearly, the syntax needs to support multiple types for an object. We
>> already do that ... not sure I see the issue.
>>
>> Sorry for being slow ...
>>
>> guha
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Martin Hepp
>> <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.**org <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org>
>> <mailto:martin.hepp@ebusiness-**unibw.org<martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org>>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi Karen,
>>     good that we have consensus.
>>
>>     Dan, Guha: I think the issue of whether multi-type entities should
>>     be solved
>>
>>     a) at markup time or
>>     b) in the vocabulary
>>
>>     is of generic relevance - do you have an opinion on that?
>>
>>     I think that for types that are not disjoint but also only loosely
>>     related (like an AudioBook used as a Product), it is much cleaner
>>     and flexible to recommend using both types at markup time.
>>
>>     This also decouples the evolution of such needs / use cases from the
>>     evolution of the schema.org <http://schema.org> spec - site owners
>>     do not have to wait for an update to schema.org <http://schema.org>,
>>
>>     and search engines can learn from the appearance of new patterns.
>>
>>     Martin
>>
>>     On Sep 24, 2013, at 9:07 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
>>
>>      >
>>      >
>>      > On 9/24/13 11:40 AM, Martin Hepp wrote:
>>      >> Hi Karen,
>>      >> as already posted earlier today:
>>      >
>>      >>
>>      >> Simply use the offers property from Product or the itemOffered
>>     property from offer and make the AudioBook (or other object) of type
>>     AudioBook AND Product.
>>      >
>>      > Yes, thanks, Martin. I saw that on your reply to Dan and that
>>     seems to be exactly what we need.
>>      >
>>      > kc
>>      >
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