Re: When to use UserComments rather than Comment class?

If http://schema.org/Comment should be used in general then shouldn't
the expected type of Article#comment be Comment rather than
UserComments?

(Sorry for dupe message Matthias)


2014-02-27 11:30 GMT+01:00 Martin Kadlec <harou2@gmail.com>:

> If http://schema.org/Comment should be used in general then shouldn't
> the expected type of Article#comment be Comment rather than
> UserComments?
>
> 2014-02-27 10:09 GMT+01:00, Matthias Tylkowski <matthias@binarypark.org>:
> > Hello Martin,
> > http://schema.org/UserComments is derived from
> > http://schema.org/UserInteraction and describes the action to perform a
> > comment.
> >
> > http://schema.org/Comment describes the comment itself. There are many
> > overlapping properties here. I suggest to use http://schema.org/Comment
> > in general. As you propably want to markup the comments on your website.
> > I think Comment is newer than UserComments and has propably not been
> > incorporated into Article yet.
> >
> > http://schema.org/UserComments is used maybe by analytics tools to
> > collect data when the user creates a comment.
> >
> > Regards
> > Matthias Tylkowski
> >
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> > Am 26.02.2014 18:35, schrieb Martin Kadlec:
> >> Hi,
> >> I'm looking into comments&microdata. I read the whole UserComments vs
> >> Comment discussion from 2012. It is said there that
> >> http://schema.org/Comment encodes the creative work by someone while
> >> http://schema.org/UserComments encodes the action event of doing a
> >> comment. Can anyone give me a real world example of when I would want
> >> to use UserComments rather than Comment? Also the Article#comment
> >> property (according to schema.org <http://schema.org>) refers to
> >> UserComments rather than Comment which seems weird. Can I just
> >> specifythe itemtype as Comment and use CreativeWork(/Comment)
> >> itemprops instead?
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Martin
> >
> >
>