Re: Proposed new Schema.org type for poetry and fiction

I always feel a bit worried about creating a hierarchy between 
expression forms (text, sound, illustration) and creative types (book, 
article, comment). I think its best if these can be treated as separate 
facets because they combine in various ways. A book can be a picture or 
photograph book, a comment can be made as a video or sound file. Every 
time one tries to pin down types, someone comes along with one that 
doesn't fit the mold.

TextObject parallel to MediaObject makes sense, but a strict hierarchy 
with article, book, comment, etc. would be problematic as those are not 
kinds of texts, they are kinds of publications. Kinds of texts could be 
poem, essay, novella.... but there's a lot of fuzziness between 
publications and texts and common language use does not make clear 
distinctions between them. For that reason, I think could be best to 
create something that echoes the mime-type concept, and not connect it 
to publication types or creative work types, but let those be coded 
separately.

kc



On 3/21/15 1:43 PM, Wallis,Richard wrote:
> Liking the the definition [1] of 'a resource primarily intended to be
> read’.
>
> I’m sure we could argue for a Type (TextWork ?) to be fitted between
> CreativeWork and it’s current subTypes Answer, Article, Book, Comment,
> EmailMessage, Question, Recipe, Review.
>
> ~Richard
>
> On 20 Mar 2015, at 22:10, Robert Sanderson <azaroth42@gmail.com
> <mailto:azaroth42@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>>
>> This is a very timely thread for the Web Annotation working group in
>> the W3C!
>>
>> We are looking to replace the Dublin Core types[1][2] with the richer
>> schema.org <http://schema.org/> types, but are missing a nice
>> replacement for dctypes:Text.  Having a subclass of CreativeWork
>> specifically for textual content, to mirror VideoObject, ImageObject
>> and so forth, would make this a slam dunk.
>>
>> Many thanks for your consideration!
>>
>> Rob
>>
>> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/#body-and-target-classes
>> [2]
>> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-annotation/2015Mar/0069.html
>>
>> --
>> Rob Sanderson
>> Information Standards Advocate
>> Digital Library Systems and Services
>> Stanford, CA 94305
>

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