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Microdata schema for historical data.
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Legal Gender Values? #17

Closed RobertGardner closed 13 years ago

RobertGardner commented 13 years ago

Schema.org provides a "gender" field in Person but does not specify legal values. I think we should document values we consider legal in a HistoricalPerson. Alternatively, since "gender" is now considered a "preference" by some, we could add a "sex" field which has unambiguous values.

ninjudd commented 13 years ago

I vote for sticking with gender and specifying male and female as valid values.

NatAtGeni commented 13 years ago

I like gender and having male, female and unknown as values.

stoicflame commented 13 years ago

I like gender and having male, female and unknown as values.

sounds good to me.

RobertGardner commented 13 years ago

LGTM

NatAtGeni commented 13 years ago

LGTM

I suspect this is why the Person spec didn't specify values - just said Text and left it at that.

RobertGardner commented 13 years ago

Oh, sorry, "LGTM" is a common Google abbreviation that means "Looks Good To Me". I'm on a readability team that vets new engineers to ensure their code is readable and we mark the reviews LGTM when we're happy. We had some t-shirts made up with a big red "LGTM" blazoned on the back as a gift to the reviewers. One of the reviewer's kids asked him if it was some new lesbian/gay/something acronym. Now I can't wear the shirt anymore! :-)

stoicflame commented 13 years ago

fixed at c3a73a0