Re: How to express a Person's height

For an organisation with limited resources, marking up a person’s height in
a complex value like a sum of values is going to be more complicated than
just saying “The person is 5-foot-7, which is 170 centimetres.”

You don’t have to use the same scale of measure for the Schema mark-up as
you do your “visible” mark-up. As I mentioned in a reply to you, I do this
with pro wrestling and martial arts websites for fighter profiles:

<dt>Height</dt>
<dd itemprop="height" itemscope itemtype="
http://schema.org/QuantitativeValue">
    <span>5</span> <abbr title="feet">ft</abbr> <span>7</span> <abbr
title="inches">ins</abbr>
    <meta itemprop="unitCode" content="CMT" />
    <meta itemprop="value" content="170.18" />
</dd>

On Tue, 18 Jun 2019 at 10:08, Jarno van Driel <jarnovandriel@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I understand why neither an array of values (eg, first item in the array
> covers feet, second item inches) or an 'ItemList' would do the job,
> however, since I've been missing on this mailing list for some time now
> (personal reasons) I was wondering whether by now there was something like
> an 'and' or 'plus' operator/property so that one can express: 5 feet + 7
> inches.
>
> Now I also understand why converting a value lik 5'7" to a single
> measurement (like inches) would be the way to go for many here but
> unfortunately this isn't feasible for every publisher, especially ones that
> don't do a lot of inhouse development (aka, people/organizations with small
> budgets). And thus was hoping the community had maybe come up with
> something already like the 'and' or 'plus' operator/property I mentioned
> above.
>
> But alas, it looks like I'll be manually converting a few hundred height
> ranges to a single measurement value after all. Thanks for weighing in
> nonetheless though.
>
> Op di 18 jun. 2019 om 09:10 schreef Elias Kaerle <elias.kaerle@sti2.at>:
>
>> Hi Jarno, all,
>>
>> the range of the height property is Distance or QuantitativeValue which
>> means that you can also add an array of Distances or QuantitativeValues
>> - for example to express the same value in different units (see example
>> below). What imho does not work is to understand the elements of the
>> array as terms of a sum. This behaviour is not in the implicit semantics
>> of the array and would require explicit knowledge about it.
>>
>> Example: height in feet and centimeters
>>
>> {
>> "@context": "http://schema.org",
>> "@type": "Person",
>> "name": "Jarno",
>> "height": [
>>   {"@type": "QuantitativeValue",
>>   "value": "5.7",
>>   "unitCode": "FOT"},
>>   {"@type": "QuantitativeValue",
>>   "value": "181",
>>   "unitCode": "CM"}
>> ]
>> }
>>
>> Cheers, E.
>>
>> Am 18.06.2019 um 07:59 schrieb Cox, Simon (L&W, Clayton):
>> > The structured representation of a quantity (e.g. ft/in, DD-MM-YYYY) is
>> important for human users/display, but a simple scaled representation
>> (inches, days, seconds) is better for transport/loading. It would normally
>> be recommended to convert to the structured representation only when
>> building a UI.
>> >
>> > From: Michael Andrews [mailto:nextcontent01@gmail.com]
>> > Sent: Tuesday, 18 June, 2019 15:35
>> > To: Jarno van Driel <jarnovandriel@gmail.com>
>> > Cc: schema.org Mailing List <public-schemaorg@w3.org>
>> > Subject: Re: How to express a Person's height
>> >
>> > Very good question - how does one represent complex values for existing
>> properties that seem to expect a single value?  Another case would be for a
>> MonetaryAmount that needs to indicate two values, for example, in
>> Mauritania where each ouguiya constitutes five khoums (meaning "one
>> fifth"). The Malagasy ariary, whose division units is also not based on a
>> power of ten, in addition to various historical currencies including the
>> British pound before decimalization.
>> >
>> > This is what I tried, without successful validation.  Perhaps I am
>> missing a trick.
>> >
>> > First, I tried an itemList for break out feet and inches:
>> >
>> > {
>> > "@context": "http://schema.org",
>> > "@type": "Person",
>> > "name": "Jarno",
>> > "height": {
>> > "@type": "ItemList",
>> > "itemListElement": [
>> > {"@type": "QuantitativeValue",
>> > "value": "5",
>> > "unitCode": "FOT"},
>> > {"@type": "QuantitativeValue",
>> > "value": "7",
>> > "unitCode": "INH"}
>> > ]
>> > }
>> > }
>> >
>> > Next I tried using the PropertyValue
>> >
>> > {
>> > "@context": "http://schema.org",
>> > "@type": "Person",
>> > "name": "Jarno",
>> > "height": [
>> > {"@type": "PropertyValue",
>> > "value": "5",
>> > "unitCode": "FOT"},
>> > {"@type": "PropertyValue",
>> > "value": "7",
>> > "unitCode": "INH"}
>> > ]
>> > }
>> > }
>> > In both cases, got a message that height didn't expect the itemList or
>> PropertyValue.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 5:10 AM Jarno van Driel <
>> jarnovandriel@gmail.com<mailto:jarnovandriel@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> > As a Dutch native (metric centric) I have run into something that has
>> me clueless, namely how to express a Person's height using US measurement
>> values like: 5'7"
>> >
>> > Can anybody please tell me if and how I should use QuantitativeValue
>> for this without converting the value to, for example, centimeters or just
>> inches?
>> >
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