- From: Philip Ashlock <phil@civicagency.org>
- Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 10:56:24 -0500
- To: Thad Guidry <thadguidry@gmail.com>
- Cc: Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com>, Markus Lanthaler <markus.lanthaler@gmx.net>, Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net>, Shawn Simister <simister@google.com>, elf Pavlik <perpetual-tripper@wwelves.org>, Martin Hepp <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org>, Stéphane Corlosquet <scorlosquet@gmail.com>, W3C Web Schemas Task Force <public-vocabs@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CANfO_nfeq_a8PyNG7ar=gSaXkykGhm7ya498cTwEbJrpfW=jdw@mail.gmail.com>
I'm fairly new to schema.org, but this schema is very much of interest to me. I've spent some time working on standards for government-citizen interactions and question answering is core to that. My work has mostly been under the umbrella of the Open311 APIs which have primarily focused on the interaction of tracking a request for service, such as reporting a pothole and tracking the status of the request for repair. That specification, Open311 GeoReport (http://wiki.open311.org/GeoReport_v2) has been getting fairly good adoption both in North America and Europe, but there's been less attention on the development of another API spec called the Open311 Inquiry API which is designed around question and answer interactions. New York City proposed a draft and implemented it several years ago (see https://developer.cityofnewyork.us/threescale/docs/open311/v1), but it included some domain specific structure around "answers" that described government services and facilities. I think that aspect of the spec is now being well served by schemas like http://schema.org/GovernmentService but there's still a need for more general FAQs, eg http://wiki.open311.org/Inquiry_v1#Frequently_Asked_Questions and it seems like this new schema will help address that. In the longer term, there's also the possibility for this question and answering interaction to follow the same asynchronous workflow as the Open311 GeoReport API which I think is more in line with the motivation behind this new schema than more static FAQ listings. A few questions: * How does this relate to AskAction and ReplyAction? * How would you represent an answer with another schema? This might be more of a general question about how an additionalType is used. For example if the question is "When is election day?" could the answer be represented as http://schema.org/Event instead of, or in addition to, http://sdo-wip1.appspot.com/Answer On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Thad Guidry <thadguidry@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 3. Thad Guidry >> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-vocabs/2014Jan/0115.html >> >> Requests that we make clear that an answer is just an opinion, not >> necessarily the truth. >> >> Hopefully the suggestedAnswer text above addresses this. We might add >> some obviously false answer example too. >> >> TODO: solicit example markup for Question and/or Answer. Any suggestions? >> >> > Yeap, that works... > but I would prefer a nudge to include "opinion" in the text...i.e. An > answer or opinion (possibly one of several, possibly incorrect) to a > Question. > > My reason is that folks sometimes don't "answer" directly...merely make an > opinion or belief statement towards the question...and sometimes those are > marked as being a "very good answer" towards a question. > > Q: Can humans multi-task ? > A: It is my belief that humans can learn to multi-task with adaptive > training, but some studies have shown that cognitive load demands too much > from memory usage on the human brain for anything more than extremely > simple tasks. > > -- > -Thad > +ThadGuidry <https://www.google.com/+ThadGuidry> > Thad on LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/> >
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