Re: Proposal: schema.org/MobileVideoGame

So i guess from a webmaster's perspective -- why would they care about
distinguishing between MobileVideoGame and VideoGame?

I could see a couple scenarios:
1) webmaster has a site about mobile apps.  Everything is marked up as a
MobileApplication.  Games are co-typed as a VideoGame in order to add
information about number of players etc.
2) webmaster has a site about video games.  Everything is marked up as a
video game.  Games have platforms that might be indicative that the game is
a "mobile", but I'm not sure that the distinction is interesting for them.

As someone that consumes the data -- can't we just map from the platform
(or set of platforms) to determine whether our application considers
something to be mobile or not?









On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Aaron Bradley <aaranged@gmail.com> wrote:

> *Would we consider the game to be a MobileApplication?*
>
> I think that depends on the context in which the thing and its properties
> are being declared, and the approach to modelling the data.
>
> IMO this is exactly analogous to a program that's available for desktop
> and mobile operating systems, like Adobe Reader.
>
> (1) "Adobe Reader" Mobile:
> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adobe.reader&hl=en
> (2) "Adobe Reader" Desktop:  http://get.adobe.com/reader/
> (3) "Adobe Reader" Mobile and Desktop:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Acrobat
>
> Obviously (1) would be marked up as a MobileApplication and (2) as a
> SoftwareApplication, but what about (3)?
>
> I'd probably say SoftwareApplication, in the same way I'd declare a shop
> that did both auto and motorcycle repairs as AutomotiveBusiness - the
> broader class - rather than the more specific subclass MotorcycleRepair.
>
> But, for the game, if I required a MobileApplication property, I guess I'd
> use, yes, an MTE. :)  (There is a question of whether or the game is
> substantially the same on the different platforms - that is whether or not
> "Hearthstone" for Windows is actually the *same *game as "Hearthstone"
> for iOS, or whether they're different games that share the same name, just
> as Reader for Android is substantially different for Reader for Windows
> even though still called "Adobe Reader" in both cases.  But I'm basically
> approaching the task as "how would I markup the Wikipedia page" in both
> cases.)
>
> The conundrum is, though, unaffected by the availability or
> non-availability of MobileGame as a type.  Currently, the question is
> "would we consider the game to be a VideoGame or MobileApplication?"; with
> the more specific type the challenge is the same:  "would we consider the
> game to be a VideoGame or a MobileVideoGame", just as the availability of a
> more specific mobile type for software applications still leaves us with
> the question "would we consider Acrobat Reader to be a SoftwareApplication
> or a MobileApplication?"
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Jerome Mourits <jmourits@google.com>
> wrote:
>
>> What about games that are available both for console / pc as well as
>> mobile?
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearthstone:_Heroes_of_Warcraft
>>
>> This game was initially released for Windows, OS X and the later was
>> released for iOs and Android.
>>
>> Would we consider the game to be a MobileApplication?
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Vicki Tardif Holland <
>> vtardif@google.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Out of curiosity, what limitations do you see in having to use multiple
>>> types?
>>>
>>> - Vicki
>>>
>>> Vicki Tardif Holland | Ontologist | vtardif@google.com
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Aaron Bradley <aaranged@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> schema.org v1.92 introduced the new type VideoGame, a more specific
>>>> type of both (the also-introduced) Game, and of SoftwareApplication.
>>>>
>>>> VideoGame is a great addition, but as mobile video games stand poised
>>>> to overtake console-based games in popularity [1], there is no way
>>>> differentiate between a traditional video game and this important variant.
>>>>
>>>> Freebase [2], Wikipedia [3] and Wikidata [4] all have entries for
>>>> "mobile game", and the Google distinguishes between "Video game" [5] and
>>>> "Mobile game" [6] in Knowledge Graph results generated on the basis of a
>>>> video game title search.
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps most tellingly, schema.org itself gives a nod to the
>>>> importance of mobile video games by providing a a markup example on the
>>>> schema.org/VideoGame page.  And in my opinion the way in which this
>>>> example is necessarily formulated demonstrates the utility of a
>>>> MobileVideoGame type:
>>>>
>>>> <script type="application/ld+json">
>>>> {
>>>>   "@context": "http://schema.org",
>>>>   "@type": ["VideoGame","MobileApplication"],
>>>>   "gamePlatform":"iOS",
>>>>   [...]
>>>> }</script>
>>>>
>>>> Only by means of this multi-type entity declaration is a data consumer
>>>> able to determine that a given video game is a mobile video game, and then
>>>> only by inference - for those data consumers that are able to correctly
>>>> process multi-type entities properly.
>>>>
>>>> In light of all of this, I propose MobileVideoGame, a more specific
>>>> type of both VideoGame and MobileApplication.  No additional properties
>>>> would be required to support this new type.
>>>>
>>>> Aaron Bradley
>>>> Electronic Arts
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://fortune.com/2015/01/15/mobile-console-game-revenues-2015/
>>>> [2] http://www.freebase.com/m/04951x
>>>> [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_game
>>>> [4] http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1121542
>>>> [5] https://www.google.com/search?q=battlefield%204&pws=0&hl=en&num=10
>>>> [6]
>>>> https://www.google.com/search?q=simpsons%20tapped%20out&pws=0&hl=en&num=10
>>>> [7]
>>>> https://developers.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/?url=http://jsbin.com/niqile
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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