RE: Move schema:fileSize & schema:fileFormat to schema:CreativeWork

+1 for using exampleOfWork / workExample as many times as necessary to move vaguely up or down the bibliographic abstraction layers.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Scott [mailto:dan@coffeecode.net]
> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2014 2:55 PM
> To: Karen Coyle
> Cc: public-vocabs@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Move schema:fileSize & schema:fileFormat to
> schema:CreativeWork
> 
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 11:36:30AM -0700, Karen Coyle wrote:
> >There may not be an easy way to do this, but "same content, different
> >format" and "different content but related concepts" may need to be
> >differentiated.
> 
> They may, if something more than a gut feeling is provided as a
> rationale, but we could start by using exampleOfWork / workExample now.
> 
> > Actually, the former now reminds me of the accessibility proposals,
> >which might solve this, since those were focused specifically on
> >different technology capabilities of the same content, so that people
> >needing a particular technology or accessibility feature could know
> >that they were getting the same content, not something different.
> 
> I'm not sure if https://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/Accessibility was
> what you were thinking of (a link would be helpful), but when I read
> the definition for http://schema.org/encoding ("A media object that
> encodes this CreativeWork"), it sounds like a specialization of
> workExample that would work (hah) reasonably well for this need... if
> MediaObject was broadened from audio/image/video to something broader,
> or alternately, the range of the property was broadened to a new
> "FileObject" type (which could use the fileSize / fileFormat properties
> that started this thread).
> 
> But in the mean time, it seems to me that exampleOfWork / workExample
> would work well enough to express this relationship until such time
> that more specific proposals are brought forth.
> 
> >On 9/4/14, 11:12 AM, Dan Scott wrote:
> >>On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 10:08:55AM -0700, Karen Coyle wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>On 9/4/14, 8:36 AM, Dan Scott wrote:
> >>>>>How can we express that there is a PDF and an ODT of the same
> document?
> >>>>
> >>>>... thanks to the workExample / exampleOfWork properties that were
> >>>>recently added to schema.org, you can express those relationships.
> >>>>See
> >>>>https://github.com/rvguha/schemaorg/pull/108 for a request to add
> >>>>examples for those properties to schema.org (where we express that
> >>>>there are both book editions and movie adaptations of a given
> novel).
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>My gut feeling is that PDF/ODT is not the same as a book and a movie
> >>>derived from the book. Would both be coded with workExample?
> >>
> >>Hmm, my gut feels differently than your gut. I would say yes, they
> >>would be coded with either or both of exampleOfWork and workExample.
> >>
> >>exampleOfWork: "A creative work that this work is an
> >>example/instance/realization/derivation of."
> >>
> >>Let's add LaTeX to the mix. If you are in the business of running a
> >>repository of open access scholarly articles, you might want to offer
> >>LaTeX, HTML, and PDF versions of each article. Each format would
> exist
> >>at a different URL*, and they are three different instances of the
> >>same creative work, right?
> >>
> >>* Well, okay, you could use content-negotiation to serve them up at
> >>the same URL, but that seems unlikely to occur on the normal web.
> >>
> >
> >--
> >Karen Coyle
> >kcoyle@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net
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> >skype: kcoylenet/+1-510-984-3600
> >

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