Marking micro-blogging status messages?

• From: François Daoust <francois@joshfire.com>
• Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:51:03 +0100
• To: public-vocabs@w3.org
• Message-ID: <CAFZhi7z18rb5VnwvYby6VN3XFFjQVJ12=ZxE8--v1ghHmS8SJg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I don't think the topic has been raised before on the mailing-list.
Apologies if that has already been addressed.

What is the best way to mark a micro-blogging messages à la Twitter,
identi.ca or any other SMS-like status message?

Looking at schema.org, 'Article' (or a sub-type of 'Article') seems
the closest thing to represent such a message but, depending on how
you see it, you might say that a status message is:
1. an Article with an articleBody and no name
2. an Article with a name and no articleBody

In both cases, the type is too generic to carry the nature of the
message. Would it make sense to add a sub-type 'Status' to 'Article'
and clarify how such messages are to be represented? Or is there
another vocabulary that should be used?

Thanks,
Francois.

Received on Wednesday, 22 February 2012 09:51:34 UTC