Proposal / RFC: Thing > Intangible > Course[OfStudy?] Type (and OnlineCourse subtype) from Wes Turner on 2014-02-19 (public-vocabs@w3.org from February 2014)

From: Wes Turner <wes.turner@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 15:46:54 -0600
To: "public-vocabs@w3.org" <public-vocabs@w3.org>
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Objectives:
  Describe courses offered through EducationalOrganization s
  Support searches like "A course that covers linked data in the USA"

Existing:

  Thing > Organization > EducationalOrganization > CollegeOrUniversity
    http://schema.org/CollegeOrUniversity

  LRMI:
    Types: "AlignmentObject"
       http://schema.org/AlignmentObject

    Properties: http://www.lrmi.net/the-specification
      educationalRole, educationalAlignment, educationalUse

Proposal:
  Thing > Intangible > Course[OfStudy?]
    PhysicalCourse (?)
    OnlineCourse


Next Steps:
  Gather feedback on appropriate properties
    Should 'subjects' or 'topicsCovered' be freetext and/or URIs?

    Identify and work with LRMI expertise
      Is there a more intuitive way to describe a 'Course' with LRMI?
      What properties of Course would be good to have?
        educationalRole,
        educationalAlignment


  Write a Proposal:
    Someone else may be more qualified to craft a Schema.org proposal:
      http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/SchemaDotOrgProposals

-- 
Wes Turner
http://westurner.github.io/

Received on Wednesday, 19 February 2014 21:47:22 UTC