Re: schema.org Series generalized, VideoGameSeries added for sdo-venkman release

Looks great to me.  This is a deft method of handling the serial nature of
some video game titles, and at the same time is a good move, IMO, toward
pulling Series from its TV and radio roots and making it a more flexible
mechanism for describing things in a series.

1 - VideoGameSeries properties from VideoGame

I did notice the point Jerome Mourits raised:  porting VideoGame properties
to VideoGameSeries.  As he points out many - if not all - of the properties
are game- rather than series-specific.

This seems to be modelled on [TV|Radio]Series, where most properties have
been ported from [TV|Radio]Episode to [TV|Radio]Series - but the model
doesn't work as well for VideoGame -> VideoGameSeries.

Having said this I don't think the somewhat awkward properties of
VideoGameSeries represent an impediment - they just don't add particular
value.

2 - VideoGame example and hasPart/isPartOf

The newly-added JSON-LD example under VideoGame that employs
VideoGameSeries is clear, but IMO belongs as an example under the former
rather than the latter, as the base entity declared is a VideoGameSeries,
not a VideoGame.

As per the move to generalizing Series, I take it that the inverse - a
VideoGame described as being part of a series - would use the "isPartOf"
property, and so avoid the need for recreating the [TV|Radio]Episode
property "partOfSeries"?

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "http://schema.org",
  "@type": "VideoGame",
  "name": "Mass Effect 1",
  "author":"BioWare",
  "isPartOf": {
   "@type": "VideoGameSeries",
   "name": "Mass Effect"
  }
}
</script>

Minor points both - I'm enthusiastic about where this is at!


On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Jerome Mourits <jmourits@google.com>
wrote:

> I'm not sure I understand the decision to have properties from VideoGame
> on VideoGameSeries. Pretty much all of the attributes of the series can
> vary from game-to-game  -- especially things like cheatCodes, quests, items
>
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com> wrote:
>
>> The Series + VideoGameSeries update discussed in
>> https://github.com/rvguha/schemaorg/issues/148 is implemented.
>>
>> Please take a look here:
>>
>> http://sdo-venkman.appspot.com/Series
>> http://sdo-venkman.appspot.com/VideoGame
>> http://sdo-venkman.appspot.com/VideoGameSeries
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>
>