Re: VideoGame proposal

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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