- From: Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net>
- Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2014 18:33:29 -0800
- To: public-vocabs@w3.org
Rob, http://schema.org/Service does exist, although it is oddly limited to "services provided by organizations." It may need some modification. kc On 1/1/14, 6:06 PM, Robert Kost wrote: > I will second the importance of establishing a new type: Service. We > have run into this need in many cases — often where there is a hotel > providing guest services of various kinds. > > I believe that the semantics of Services are substantially different > than those of Product. Services often have rates rather than unit > prices (e.g., lawyers’ hourly rates), criteria for fulfillment and > completion, are typically time-bound (per month, per year, etc.) and > have terms and conditions substantially different than products. When > one considers the range of LocalBusinesses encompassed by Schema, many > (if not most) are rendering services rather than selling products. > Service is literally an intangible, and should probably be located as > a subclass of Intangible. It also forms part of some proposed > extensions for LodgingBusiness > <http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/SchemaDotOrgProposals#LodgingExtensions>. > > What do you think? How might we press this idea forward? > > Rob > > On Jan 1, 2014, at 6:47 PM, Tyler Shuster <tyler.herrshuster@gmail.com > <mailto:tyler.herrshuster@gmail.com>> wrote: > >> Dan, >> >> Thanks for the explanation. That makes more sense. According to the >> whatwg spec,"The item types of an item >> <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/microdata.html#concept-item> are >> the tokens obtained by splitting the element's |itemtype| attribute's >> value on spaces >> <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/common-microsyntaxes.html#split-a-string-on-spaces>. >> If the |itemtype >> <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/microdata.html#attr-itemtype>| attribute >> is missing or parsing it in this way finds no tokens, the item >> <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/microdata.html#concept-item> is >> said to have no item types >> <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/microdata.html#item-types>." >> >> >> Is there anything keeping me from changing your fourth line to: <div >> itemprop="itemOffered" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Product >> http://schema.org/Service">? While I understand that "Product" can >> also refer to a service, I don't find it as semantic. >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Dan Scott <dan@coffeecode.net >> <mailto:dan@coffeecode.net>> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Tyler Shuster >> <tyler.herrshuster@gmail.com <mailto:tyler.herrshuster@gmail.com>> >> wrote: >> > I'm just starting out here, but it seems to me that "makesOffer" >> should also >> > accept Thing/Intangible/Service. Specifically, I work for a >> computer repair >> > company and I want to be able to say that we provide a service, >> not a >> > product. My markup under "schema.org/LocalBusiness >> <http://schema.org/LocalBusiness>" is ` >> > itemprop="makesOffer" itemscope >> itemtype="http://schema.org/Service/"`. >> >> Hi Tyler: >> >> http://schema.org/makesOffer actually takes an Offer. Offer has an >> itemOffered property, which in turn points at a Product. The >> definition of http://schema.org/Product is that it includes commodity >> services; that is, your service _is_ the product. >> >> Your markup should end up looking like: >> >> <div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization"> >> <h1 itemprop="name">Computer Repair Inc</h1> >> <div itemprop="makesOffer" itemscope >> itemtype="http://schema.org/Offer"> >> <div itemprop="itemOffered" itemscope >> itemtype="http://schema.org/Product"> >> <h2 itemprop="name">Computer repair</h2> >> </div> >> <div itemprop="price">$100 / hour</div> >> </div> >> </div> >> >> (You would flesh it out further, of course). >> >> Name aside, is there anything about "Service" vs "Product" that you >> feel you need to describe your offering that the current Offer / >> Product approach does not cover? >> >> > -- Karen Coyle kcoyle@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet
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