RE: Collection / Container / List (+Pagination)

The broader understanding of “Product” seems to flow from the early integration of GoodRelations and ProductOntology:

http://www.productontology.org/#faq5


Also, using schema:IndividualProduct is one of the few ways in Schema.org to make it clear that you are referring to a specific individual (e.g. a box sitting on a shelf) rather than a boxy widget (a schema:ProductModel). It’s also handy because dimensionality properties are within the domain (e.g. schema:height, width, depth, weight, etc.

Jeff

From: Wallis,Richard [mailto:Richard.Wallis@oclc.org]
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 11:52 AM
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Subject: Fwd: Collection / Container / List (+Pagination)


My understanding of Product, within the context of schema.org<http://schema.org>, is broader than that.  Something that is result of an action or process.  Not necessarily having an economic role.

Pushing that definition to an extreme I would suggest that a lump of rock is a product - maybe the result of a geological process, or divine intervention.

The Container subtypes I suggest are all physical items, that a person/organisation would/could have purchased or produced to put things in.  Pushing to the other extreme someone or a software application would make a directory/folder to place files within.

Perhaps a slight rewording of the description of Product might help, if folks agree with my understanding that is ;-)

~Richard

On 6 Mar 2015, at 16:25, ☮ elf Pavlik ☮ <perpetual-tripper@wwelves.org<mailto:perpetual-tripper@wwelves.org>> wrote:



Hi Richard,



On 03/06/2015 04:47 PM, Wallis,Richard wrote:

New types:


   *   Container  - a subType of Product
To my understanding it means:

"Every instance of a Container is also an instance of a Product"



I really don't understand where this comes from?!



http://schema.org/Product


"Any offered product or service. For example: a pair of shoes; a concert

ticket; the rental of a car; a haircut; or an episode of a TV show

streamed online."



Which sounds to me like something having clear economic (or e-commerce)

role. Which I don't think includes all the possible instances of Container.



Thanks for clarifying little more your reasoning behind it :)