Re: sinkholes schema

Hi,

Sounds like an interesting use case.

I share your concern about the use of Emergency as currently it is defined
as an enumeration value for a type of MedicalSpecialty.  What you describe
is more related to an emergency event.

However as Jim points out, Landform is probably a good area to start for
defining a Sinkhole type.

Following your thinking it feels like there might be a need for a
geological/natural event type which could be linked to associated LandForm
types so that events like the appearance of a sinkhole, volcanic eruption,
tsunami, meteor strike, etc. could be described.

As to working with Schema, there will be improved documentation in the next
[imminent] release.  You can preview here:
http://webschemas.org/docs/howwework.html

I would also point you at a 3 part blog post series I produced [1
<http://dataliberate.com/2016/02/10/evolving-schema-org-in-practice-pt1-the-bits-and-pieces/>
,2
<http://dataliberate.com/2016/02/25/evolving-schema-org-in-practice-pt2-working-within-the-vocabulary/>
,3
<http://dataliberate.com/2016/03/01/evolving-schema-org-in-practice-pt3-choosing-where-to-extend/>
]

~Richard


Richard Wallis
Founder, Data Liberate
http://dataliberate.com
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On 3 May 2016 at 12:44, Jim Goodell <jimgoodell@qi-partners.com> wrote:

> PDM,
> I don’t claim to have any knowledge of this area, but would think Thing
> <https://schema.org/Thing> > Place <https://schema.org/Place> > Landform
> <https://schema.org/Landform> is the appropriate schema.org type for
> sinkholes.
> jim
>
> From: <paoladimaio10@gmail.com> on behalf of Paola Di Maio <
> paola.dimaio@gmail.com>
> Reply-To: <paoladimaio10@googlemail.com>
> Date: Tuesday, May 3, 2016 at 7:30 AM
> To: W3C Web Schemas Task Force <public-vocabs@w3.org>
> Subject: sinkholes schema
> Resent-From: <public-vocabs@w3.org>
> Resent-Date: Tue, 03 May 2016 11:31:21 +0000
>
> Greetings
>
> I am working on two versions of an online map of sinkholes autogenerated
> by RSS feeds from news alerts
>
> The most advanced version of the system would extract certain data from
> the feed (location, size, depth, cause etc), It came to mind that it would
> be useful to  have a sinkhole data schema  to start with
>
> Checked the schema.org <http://schema..org> and found 'emergency' which
> could (or could not) be a top level category for sinkholes
>
> However, noted that emergency in schema.org is classified as a medical
> event. That would not do
>
> So, I wonder if others see the need to bump up 'emergency' to be a broad
> term for various types of emergency (medical being one of them)  and if
> this makes sense in this project, and how to do that?
> https://schema.org/Emergency
>
> alternatively, I could propose a different type of top level term
> such as 'geological occurrance' and stick the sinkhole uner that, but
> would that make sense?
>
>
> secondly, have not yet found out how to create a new schema
> (browsed the documentation but there is no entry on
> how to start a new schema). have I just not seen it?
> https://schema.org/docs/faq.html
>
>
> pointers welcome
> thankz
>
> PDM
>
>
>