New property: (CreativeWork) successorOf/hasSuccessor (CreativeWork)

[hmartim]

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According to FRBRoo, the property “R1 is logical successor of (has successor)” associates an instance of “F1 Work” which logically continues the content of another instance of “F1 Work” with the latter.

Examples:

• Albrecht Dürer’s woodcut from ‘The Large Woodcut Passion’ entitled ‘The Agony in the Garden’ (F1, conceived ca 1496-98) R1 is logical successor of Albrecht Dürer’s woodcut from ‘The Large Woodcut Passion’ entitled ‘The Last Supper’ (F1, dated 1510)
• The first ‘Star wars’ trilogy (F15, 1977-1983) R1 is logical successor of The second ‘Star wars’ trilogy (F15, 1999-2005) [Note that the logical order does not follow, in either of these two examples, the chronological order]

My suggestion is to add the successorOf (inverse: hasSuccessor) property to represent the relationship described above between two instances of CreativeWork, as following: Thing > CreativeWork Property: https://schema.org/successorOf (inverse: hasSuccessor) Values: CreativeWork, URL

I intend to use this property to describe the relationship between a bill and a legal act.

Thanks.

[tfrancart]

(Interested in this topic of the relation between bills and legal acts, as a potential extension derived from ELI-DL).

Not that I consider the initial proposal wrong, but an alternative modeling would be to use a schema:PublicationEvent to indicate something like :

• schema:Legislation (the legal act) schema:publication schema:PublicationEvent
• schema:PublicationEvent schema:sourceWork schema:CreativeWork (the bill) (or another new property to point to the CreativeWork being published)

[hmartim]

This additional property "sourceWork" in "PublicationEvent" is very interesting, because it makes explicit the object that was published in the event, be it a book, a scientific article, a law. Perhaps a “schema: result” property (or something similar) for “PublicationEvent" is also interesting, explaining the production of, for example, a Manifestation (schema:MediaObject, eli:Manifest) from the "sourceWork".

As for the laws, in the case of Brazil, the relationship between the bill and act is made by the event of signing the bill. In other words, it is the signature event that turns the bill into an act (that has the bill as “sourceWork” and the act as "result"). The publication event will then publicize the resulted act, having the act as the “sourceWork” of “PublicationEvent”, not the bill, and a Manifestation (“LegislationObject”) as “result” -- and, in this case, "sourceWork" would be the inverse property "publication" of "PublicationEvent".

The possibility of a more specific solution for the law area makes the modeling more accurate and we agree with that. Anyway, we think that the adaptation of "schema:successorOf", to be applied also in "schema:CreativeWork", would be welcome for more generic cases.

[RichardWallis]

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

[tfrancart]

Nearby : #24