Re: Tourism Schema

This group is now live: https://www.w3.org/community/tourismdata/

~Richard

Richard Wallis
Founder, Data Liberate
http://dataliberate.com
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On 8 December 2015 at 15:40, Richard Wallis <richard.wallis@dataliberate.com
> wrote:

> Following this discussion, a W3C Community Group has been proposed to
> facilitate discussion on this and broader topics.
>
>
> The mission of this group is to discuss and prepare proposals, examples,
> and best practice guidance for the sharing, via the web, structured data
> descriptions of resources associated with the tourism industry.
>
> Initial focus will be on extending Schema.org schemas for the improved
> representation of tourism related information markup and sharing. The group
> will seek consensus around, and support for, proposal(s) to be made to the
> Schema.org community.
>
> It is looking for five W3C users to support it.  When that has occurred it
> will be created and open to all.
>
> To support the creation of the group, vote at:
> https://www.w3.org/community/blog/2015/12/08/proposed-group-the-tourism-structured-web-data-community-group/
>
> Richard
>
>
> Richard Wallis
> Founder, Data Liberate
> http://dataliberate.com
> Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/richardwallis
> Twitter: @rjw
>
> On 26 November 2015 at 13:34, Chaals McCathie Nevile <
> chaals@yandex-team.ru> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 20:15:06 +1100, Richard Wallis <
>> richard.wallis@dataliberate.com> wrote:
>>
>> I agree that disability services is a very important, oft neglected area,
>>> that will have a place in the discussions around the descriptive needs of
>>> the tourism domain.  An important part of this being physical
>>> accessibility
>>> features and hazards (e.g.. steps, ramps, elevators access, audio
>>> enhancement systems, etc.).
>>>
>>> This is an area that is much broader than tourism however, I wonder if
>>> there is a motivated group already in existence that could look
>>> delivering
>>> a proposal for addressing physical accessibly for
>>> Places/CivicStructures/LocalBusinesses in a similar way that technical
>>> accessibility has been for CreativeWorks with accessibilityHazard
>>> <https://schema.org/accessibilityHazard> and accessibilityHazard
>>> <https://schema.org/accessibilityHazard>.
>>>
>>
>> Yeah, we absolutely should be doing that. So I feel bad, because I'm one
>> of the people who should be doing it...
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> --
>> Charles McCathie Nevile - web standards - CTO Office, Yandex
>>  chaals@yandex-team.ru - - - Find more at http://yandex.com
>>
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