Re: Why is the video property bound to creative work?

What about adding a "related" property to Thing?

The type of the object of this statement would then indicate the nature of the relatedness, e.g. a VideoObject.

Best wishes

Martin

On 08 Apr 2014, at 16:06, Laura Dawson <Laura.Dawson@bowker.com> wrote:

> Generic can be extremely useful and flexible, particularly if other data
> elements are adding additional context.
> 
> On 4/8/14, 9:59 AM, "Dan Scott" <dan@coffeecode.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 10:33:22AM +0200, martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org
>> wrote:
>>> In general, I am supportive of this, since any entity could "have" a
>>> video.
>>> 
>>> But of course you can also model it the other way round:
>>> 
>>> http://schema.org/VideoObject
>>> ---> about --> Thing
>>> 
>>> This works as of now. The main problem with the current solution is
>>> that search engines seem to have a hard time honoring information in
>>> that structure. And since we have the property "image" at the level of
>>> http://schema.org/Thing, why not promote video thereto, too?
>> 
>> It's a bit of a slippery slope; "audio" will undoubtedly be next,
>> suggesting that we need a property that can accept any MediaObject.
>> 
>> And then MedicalProcedure will need to link to an associated Diet and
>> ExercisePlan (which are CreativeWorks). Really, "followup" having a
>> range limited to Text is...  pretty limiting.
>> 
>> So perhaps Thing just needs a property that accepts a range of
>> CreativeWork to provide this direction of linking? Horribly generic, I
>> know.
>> 
>> Dan
>> 
> 
>

Received on Tuesday, 8 April 2014 14:20:43 UTC