- From: Paul Watson <lazarus@lazaruscorporation.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 16:47:19 +0100
- To: public-vocabs@w3.org
On 17/10/14 16:34, Dan Brickley wrote: > On 17 October 2014 16:24, Thad Guidry <thadguidry@gmail.com> wrote: >> Freebase also went with a FictionalCharacter type...and we used a property >> on it called "Based On" to hold the person that the character is based on. >> >> On the reverse side, We also added a new type for a person called Person In >> Fiction >> https://www.freebase.com/fictional_universe/person_in_fiction?schema= So >> basically, in Freebase, persons get multi-typed if they had a role in >> Fiction somehow. >> >> (but in Schema.org the Person In Fiction does not have to be a new type at >> all, it could be a property or Role or whatever works) >> >> +1 to add a new FictionalCharacter type... Schema.org WILL need it, rest >> assured. > I think we're more likely to put the 'fictionality' workload onto > specific properties. > > Person has "A person (alive, dead, undead, or fictional)." > > But that attitude is relevant across countless other types too. > > We have Place, and lots of kinds of places, e.g. > http://schema.org/CafeOrCoffeeShop > > I don't expect FictionalPlace, FictionalCafeOrCoffeeShop will be > needed. Or FictionalEvent, etc. > > FictionalVolcano is tempting though. > > Dan Wha.. Wait - a Person can be either undead OR fictional? Do you know something I don't? Paul --
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