historical-data/schema — pull request #32 by RobertGardner (2012-05-04 20:39:44+00:00)
Title: Changes for merging historical-data.org into schema.org

Here are the changes we are proposing for merging historical-data.org into schema.org. The changes were the following:

First commit:
* Since Person and Event properties will be folded into schema.org's Person and Event, rename those files to Person and Event. For consistency, rename HistoricalFamily to Family.

Second commit:
* Document only the changes to be made to Person and Event.

* Change HistoricalRecord to subclass schema.org's CreativeWork.

* Remove redundant properties, rename modifiedDate to dateModified for consistency with schema.org conventions, alphabetize the properties, and so forth.

* Add historicalCollection field to allow the collection the records came from to be documented, e.g., "1940 U.S. Census". Another purpose of this field is to make it clear that this record was published by a genealogy vendor, as opposed to, say, a social networking site. Since schema.org's Person will now be used for both types of records, distinguishing the two could be useful.

There are a few outstanding questions in here that should be resolved before finalizing.