{"id":10,"date":"2016-03-16T14:56:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T14:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/schema-course-extend\/?p=10"},"modified":"2016-09-15T09:05:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T09:05:13","slug":"progress-update-feb-mid-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/schema-course-extend\/2016\/03\/16\/progress-update-feb-mid-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress update, Feb – mid March"},"content":{"rendered":"

If the forming-storming-norming-performing<\/a> model of group development still has any currency, then I am pretty sure that February was the “storming” phase. There was a lot of discussion<\/a>, much of it around the modelling of the basic entities for describing courses and how they relate to core types in schema (the Modelling Course and CourseOffering<\/a> & Course, a new dawn?<\/a> threads). Pleased to say that the discussion\u00a0did its job, and we achieved some sort of\u00a0consensus (norming) around modelling courses in two parts<\/p>\n

Course<\/b>, a subtype of CreativeWork<\/a>: A description of an educational course which may be offered as distinct instances at different times and places, or through different media or modes of study. An educational course is a sequence of one or more educational events and\/or creative works which aims to build knowledge, competence or ability of learners.<\/p>\n

CourseInstance<\/b>, a subtype of Event<\/a>: An instance of a Course offered at a specific time and place or through specific media or mode of study or to a specific section of students.<\/p>\n

hasCourseInstance<\/b>, a property of Course with expected range CourseInstance: An offering of the course at a specific time and place or through specific media or mode of study or to a specific section of students.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(see Modelling Course and CourseInstance<\/a> on the group wiki)<\/p>\n

This modelling, especially the subtyping from existing schema.org types allows us to meet many\u00a0of the requirements arising from the use cases<\/a>\u00a0quite simply. For example, the cost of a course instance<\/a> can be provided using the offers<\/a> property of schema.org\/Event.<\/p>\n

The wiki is working to a reasonable extent as a place to record the outcomes of the discussion. Working from the outline use cases page<\/a>\u00a0you can see which requirements have pages, and those pages that exist\u00a0point to the relevant discussion\u00a0threads in the mail list and, where we have got this\u00a0far, describe the current solution. \u00a0The wiki is also the place to find examples<\/a> for testing whether the proposed solution can be used to mark up real course information.<\/p>\n

As well as the wiki, we have the proposal on github<\/a>, which can be used to build working test instances on appspot<\/a> showing the proposed changes to the schema.org site.<\/p>\n

The next phase of the work should see us performing, working through the requirements from the use cases and showing how they can be me. I think we should focus first on those that look easy to do with existing properties of schema.org\/Event and schema.org\/CreativeWork.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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