WebSchemas/SocialAccountProperty

This is an archived WebSchemas proposal socialAccount Property for schema.org. See Proposals listing for more. Note: active schema.org development is now based at github

This page tracks a proposal to extend schema.org's vocabulary for describing people, organizations and contact points by indicating a 'socialAccount'. This would typically from a multi-user social network site e.g. Twitter but the link could be from any site of any size.

Proposal

Add a new property, 'socialAccount':

Comment: "Indicates a corresponding profile page for an account on a socially-oriented Web site."
Used on types: ContactPoint, Person, MusicGroup, Organization, ServiceChannel
Expected types: URL, WebPage (i.e. a plain link or an inline description are both OK)

Notes:

Language of the socialAccount could be roughly inferred from http://schema.org/availableLanguage on ServiceChannel or ContactPoint.
The property does not mandate 'public profile' since account status settings can easily change. As with all personally identifying information, publishers should take care when describing other people.

Examples

A Person, their twitter account and a wikipedia page

Microdata:

<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">
<span itemprop="name">Stephen Fry</span> 
     (<a itemprop="url" href="http://www.stephenfry.com/">stephenfry.com</a>, 
      <a itemprop="socialAccount" href="http://twitter.com/stephenfry">twitter</a>, 
<a itemprop="sameAs" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Fry">wikipedia</a>)
</div>

RDFa:

<div vocab="http://schema.org/" typeof="Person">
 <span property="name">Stephen Fry</span>
      (<a property="url" href="http://www.stephenfry.com/">stephenfry.com</a>, 
       <a property="socialAccount" href="http://twitter.com/stephenfry">twitter</a>, 
       <a property="sameAs" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Fry">wikipedia</a>)
</div>