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

On 19 November 2014 22:30, Wallis,Richard <Richard.Wallis@oclc.org> wrote:

>  Liking the ‘subtle’ changes since the last version!
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>  Not sure that picking illustrator out as a specific property for
> BookSeries makes particular sense - its already a property of Book anyway
> and illustrators may well differ from book to book in a series.   I would
> drop it for now.
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>  There may be BookSeries properties that could be added at a later date -
> seriesEditor comes to mind - but perhaps identifying them at a later date
> may be more appropriate.
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Agreed, thanks Richard, Thad. Let's come back to this and seriesEditor
later. There was also good efforts around visual works that we should
finish integrating.

So http://sdo-venkman.appspot.com/BookSeries is back to basics for now, via

https://github.com/danbri/schemaorg/commit/237d614a863c6a6b8ee9414272698128b2b65663

cheers,

Dan

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>  ~Richard
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>  On 19 Nov 2014, at 21:31, Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com> wrote:
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> On 19 November 2014 20:02, Thad Guidry <thadguidry@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>  Last paragraph description quibble:
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>>  "It is common for properties applicable to an item from the series to be
>> usefully applied to the containing group. Schema.org attempts to
>> anticipate some of these cases, but publishers should be free to apply
>> properties of the series items to the series as a whole wherever they seem
>> appropriate."
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>> Hmm... on the last paragraph in the description....when we say "item" and
>> "series items"...can we instead rephrase with "part(s)", in keeping with
>> convention of Series hasPart/isPartOf ?
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>  Good point.  We now have "but publishers should be free to apply
> properties of the series parts to the series as a whole wherever they seem
> appropriate." - I hope this is enough to reinforce the part/whole thinking.
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>  http://sdo-venkman.appspot.com/Series
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>  cheers,
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>  Dan
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