WebSchemas/EventSchemaUpdate

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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.

Event schema.org proposal

• 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 PDF: File:Events-proposalforupdatedschema.pdf

See also:

• 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

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