WebSchemas/LocalBusinessDepartment
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== Status == | == Status == | ||
| - | We have a sketched proposal here | + | We have a sketched proposal here. Next steps: |
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* circulate on public-vocabs, to schema.org partners, and interested W3C groups (e.g. eGov) | * circulate on public-vocabs, to schema.org partners, and interested W3C groups (e.g. eGov) | ||
| - | * make some examples | + | * make some (realistic) examples |
* check scope of definition (LocalBusiness, Organization); confirm property/type names | * check scope of definition (LocalBusiness, Organization); confirm property/type names | ||
** w.r.t. hasUnit from the W3C Org vocab; v close, but schema.org does not use the 'hasFoo' naming idiom (declare samePropertyAs?). | ** w.r.t. hasUnit from the W3C Org vocab; v close, but schema.org does not use the 'hasFoo' naming idiom (declare samePropertyAs?). | ||
** is this peculiar to LocalBusiness, or would we potentially want the same for any Organization? | ** is this peculiar to LocalBusiness, or would we potentially want the same for any Organization? | ||
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| + | == Related Work == | ||
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| + | * Organization ontology, http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-org/#overview-of-ontology | ||
| + | * RegisteredOrganization, http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-regorg/#overview-of-the-vocabulary (created to represent formal business registry data) | ||
| + | * work to reconcile/link these is ongoing, see http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/issues/45 | ||
== Vocabulary == | == Vocabulary == | ||
Revision as of 15:12, 5 March 2013
Contents |
Overview
This page discusses a proposal extending schema.org to introduce the notion that a 'LocalBusiness' may have different departments.
The motivation is to allow representation of the department name, phone numbers, and opening hours for each department within a local business branch (see the websites of uhaul, walmart, and usps for examples of where this could be useful). (e.g. try '90210' into locator in https://www.usps.com/ or http://www.uhaul.com/Locations/ ...
It seems common to have different contact info, opening hours etc, for different service offerings within the same larger branch. The proposed representation is to introduce a new property, "department", on LocalBusiness (and a convenience inverse, "departmentOf"). That property's target type would be:
Thing > Organization > LocalBusiness > LocalBusinessDepartment
Status
We have a sketched proposal here. Next steps:
- circulate on public-vocabs, to schema.org partners, and interested W3C groups (e.g. eGov)
- make some (realistic) examples
- check scope of definition (LocalBusiness, Organization); confirm property/type names
- w.r.t. hasUnit from the W3C Org vocab; v close, but schema.org does not use the 'hasFoo' naming idiom (declare samePropertyAs?).
- is this peculiar to LocalBusiness, or would we potentially want the same for any Organization?
Related Work
- Organization ontology, http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-org/#overview-of-ontology
- RegisteredOrganization, http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-regorg/#overview-of-the-vocabulary (created to represent formal business registry data)
- work to reconcile/link these is ongoing, see http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/issues/45
Vocabulary
- a new type, LocalBusinessDepartment (inherits name, phone numbers, and opening hours from LocalBusiness, and adds just one new property)
- add 'department' to existing LocalBusiness type (perhaps also to Organization)
- a new property, departmentOf ("The larger organization or business to which this department belongs."), whose value is LocalBusiness (potentially Organization instead, but consistent with whatever we say for 'department')
