Re: [Proposal] schema:OnlineCourse

Nice to see somebody get concrete at  efforts at developing this schema for
this by publishing a proposal - thanks Guangyuan!

FYI, there's been preliminary discussion in this area of which you may or
may not be aware:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-vocabs/2014Feb/0131.html

Without having the time to review your proposal in detail, one thing that
stands out immediately is that this is a proposal for an *online* course
type.

IMO it makes more sense (as Dan's message referenced in the above implies)
to look at "courses" (of study) holistically, with an "online course" being
a sub-type of a more generalized "course" type.

I think it also make senses to explore a "course" as a sub-type not only of
CreativeWork but of Event as well.  For example, your proposed "startDate"
and "endDate" properties are already present there, and "instructor" is
analogous to Event's "performer" property (which I've always maintained was
too specific a name for "those that may present at an event").


On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 1:31 PM, guangyuan piao <parklize@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I’d like to propose a new subtype of CreativeWork for describing online
> courses.
>
> It could be used for publishing information about online courses (e.g.
> many courses from MOOC) such as:
> Start date: with http://schema..org/startDate
> <http://schema.org/startDate>
> End date: with http://schema.org/endDate
> Instructor, publisher(e.g. Stanford University), provider(e.g. Coursera)
> etc.
>
> See URL below for basic vocabularies and example.
>
> https://sites.google.com/site/moocontology/
>
> All feedback will be appreciated!!
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
> *Guangyuan Piao*
>
> PhD Student,
> National University of Ireland, Galway.
>
> Email: parklize@gmail.com
> ------------------------------------------------------
>