Re: Promoting namedPosition to Role and renaming it to roleName (was Re: September Update on Sports)

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Markus Lanthaler <markus.lanthaler@gmx.net
> wrote:

> On Thursday, October 09, 2014 9:46 PM, Dan Scott wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Vicki Tardif Holland <
> vtardif@google.com> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com>
> wrote:
> >> >> If you really want to go down this route, though, I would suggest
> roleName
> >> >> directly on Role that could serve for any future subtypes as well.
> >> >> Otherwise, properties like characterName and namedPosition are just
> going to
> >> >> propagate as more Role subtypes emerge for different contexts.
> >> >
> >> > roleName on Role (expecting Text or URL) works for me,
> >>
> >> Promoting "namedPosition" to Role and renaming the property "roleName"
> >> or the like soungs good to me.
> >
> > Thanks for the positive response, Vicki! I've opened
> > https://github.com/rvguha/schemaorg/pull/146 in the hopes of making
> > this (or the like) happen.
>
> Maybe I missed something but why don't we simply use "name" with "Role" to
> give a role a name? Is name used for something else with roles?
>

You're not missing anything, I suggested exactly that at
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-vocabs/2014Sep/0326.html but Dan
Brickley was concerned about name's range limitation of Text.

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