Adding Poem to CreativeWork type

[andystevensname]

It seems to me that with the inclusion of such objects as Painting, Photograph, Sculpture, Movie, etc, that there would be an inclusion of a Poem or Poetry type within the CreativeWork type. Currently poetry is limited to being a subclass of Book at best, and a genre at that. But poetry is not a genre, it is its own entity, with sub genres of it's own like Confessional Poetry, Narrative Poetry, Sound Poetry, etc.

I'm aware that Wikidata has an entry on poetry and that there are mechanisms that would allow a sameAs functionality, but that doesn't seem to make sense. A book is not the sameAs a poem, though it could be a work of literature, but again not necessarily.

There are a myriad of ways to markup a poem, from ps to divs to articles to pres, and I think a definitive schema.org entry would help the internet make sense of them all.

How does one add this Type to the CreativeWork type? I've joined the W3C community boards but they don't seem to be functioning at full tilt yet. I'd be more than welcome to host the schema on my own website for the time being.

I would love to hear anyone's feedback on this issue. I realize it might not be the most pressing one, but I think it certainly warrants a review.

Thank you for your time.

[Aaranged]

@taylorstevens You'll be interested in this prior thread on the subject: https://www.w3.org/Search/Mail/Public/advanced_search?keywords=&hdr-1-name=subject&hdr-1-query=%22Proposed+new+Schema.org+type+for+poetry+and+fiction%22&hdr-2-name=from&hdr-2-query=&hdr-3-name=message-id&hdr-3-query=&period_month=&period_year=&index-type=g&index-grp=Public__FULL&type-index=&resultsperpage=20&sortby=date

[andystevensname]

Thanks for filling me in!

[RichardWallis]

As per the suggestions in the discussion Aaron referenced, I think it would be best to move this discussion to the Schema Bib Ex group: https://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/

~Richard.

On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 7:46 PM, taylorstevens [email protected] wrote:

Thanks for filling me in!

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[GaryJones]

Was there any other follow-up to this? The thread seems to have reached little conclusion, and https://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/2015/08/31/bibex-entry-for-poetry/ is the only reference on the Schema Bib Ex group link.

[RichardWallis]

See issue #7 for the context of the move from the main Schema.org issue tracker to this repository.

[encolpe]

There's no conclusion or anything. Poetry sites style not using any semantic markup nor any schema.