Re: Blog - was: VideoGame proposal

To be honest I've always wondered why Blog even ever existed. For me a Blog
stands for a more specific type of a Collection. A type schema.org doesn't
have (yet). So where did Blog come from then?

And it also has this strange @blogPosting property which has no equivalent
for Article:
CollectionPage
    Blog
        blogPosting > BlogPosting
            name > text
        blogPosting > BlogPosting
            name > text
        [etc]

Now I can imagine an MTE like [WebPage Blog] for this but since there are
no examples it's unclear if this is a viable option.

And if I compare this to let's say a category page on a news site, it
becomes even weirder (for me at least it does)
CollectionPage
    [no Collection type]
        NewsArticle [no property to link the NewsArticle to the
CollectionPage/Collection]
            name > text
        NewsArticle
            name > text
        </div>
    </div>
</body>

Taking the liberty to speak freely about this, in my mind, the following
would make more sense:
1] Make Blog a sub class of Collection (CreativeWork > Collection > Blog)
2] Add a mainEntity property
3] Add a hasPart property
4] Deprecate the blogPosting property

And then we could write:
CollectionPage
    mainEntity > Collection (or Blog)
        hasPart > NewsArticle (or BlogPosting)
            name > text
        hasPart > NewsArticle
            name > text
        [etc]

As such having a clear and easy way to do this.
Or at least, I think so, does it make any sense to any of you?


2014-06-13 12:12 GMT+02:00 Wallis,Richard <Richard.Wallis@oclc.org>:

>  Blog is a bit of a difficult case because, as you point out, it
> encompasses multiple types of online site displaying attributes of
> blogishness.
>
>  There is a subset of Blogs that can be categorised as online periodicals
> - they fit the criteria to be allocated an issn.
> <http://www.issn.org/understanding-the-issn/assignment-rules/the-issn-for-electronic-media/>
>
>
>  Taking account of this, at the same time as withdrawing the proposal to
> make Blog a sub-type of Periodical, an example of how you would markup a
> Blog also as a Periodica
> <https://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/Periodicals,_Articles_and_Multi-volume_Works#Example_4_-_A_Blog_also_considered_a_Periodical>l
> was added to the proposal.
>
>  ~Richard
>
>  On 12 Jun 2014, at 22:38, Aaron Bradley <aaranged@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>  "Periodical" is, by contrast, a less fluid concept.  With perhaps some
> rare exceptions, a journal or magazine only exists as the sum of its
> constituent issues, and never as a physical object in itself.
>
>  FWIW I think Blog (the thing that contains blog posts) is an
> anachronism, and for schema.org (like anything else where a definition
> ultimately rests on the mode of production, rather than attributes of the
> thing itself) is not a very useful type.  And even less useful, and more
> confusing, is BlogPosting, which in every material respect is identical to
> Article (which is the only such object of this type - sensibly IMO - that
> you'll find in Open Graph).  Ironically, most WordPress schema.org
> plugins declare a blog post to be an Article.  All of this to say that it
> makes sense that "blog" and "periodical" don't play well together, as a
> blog is such an ill-defined concept.
>
>
>


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