WebSchemas/EventSchemaUpdate
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This is a WebSchemas proposal Events Schema (update) for schema.org. See Proposals listing for more. Status: Candidate
Overview
This page is about a proposal to update the Event type in schema.org, discussed in the Web Schemas group.
The bulk of the proposal is (currently) in a PDF; see attached file. The proposal comes from the Google teams working with the existing Event markup, and has been checked by the other schema.org partners prior to publication. See PDF for full details of the proposal.
A slightly revised proposal was updated in May 2013, and includes improvements for the repeating events model.
Event schema.org proposal
(todo: check these, are they acccurate for the May 2013 update?)
- Proposes 3 new properties of Event: eventStatus, previousStartDate, previousEndDate to support canceled or rescheduled events.
- Adds eventCategory to support categorised events.
- Supports recurring events by making startDate and endDate repeated.
- Encourages use of existing 'url' property (of Thing) to link to associated Web pages.
Proposal document:
See also: [ActivityActions], where the Action type shares some Event-like structures.
- 24 Feb announcement on public-vocabs list
- 29 Feb 'last call for comments'.
Note from WebSchemas/Singularity a property re-naming (in progress, Mar 2012):
- subEvents (on Event); value is a Event): subEvent, c.f. EventSchemaUpdate
See also
Related Work
- hCal from the Microformats community
- RDF / iCalendar work from 2005 W3C SWIG
- iCalendar
- RSS 1.0 Events module (2001/2)
- Simple Event Model (SEM) (more info)
- the Event ontology
- Some thoughts on additions to the Event ontology centring around 'attendable' events from the BBC's 'Things to Do' website
