- From: Laura Dawson <Laura.Dawson@bowker.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 14:22:30 +0000
- To: "martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org" <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org>
- CC: Dan Scott <dan@coffeecode.net>, Jarno van Driel <jarno@quantumspork.nl>, W3C Web Schemas Task Force <public-vocabs@w3.org>
I like this very very much. It can also be used to relate books to one another, or movies to books - ³derived from², ³adapted from², etc. On 4/8/14, 10:20 AM, "martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org" <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org> wrote: >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 >>> >> >> >
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