Re: Schema for categories of awards or scores

This would be generally useful. I have added this to GitHub as issue #668
<https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/668>, so it is easier to
track if someone wants to put together a proposal.

- Vicki

Vicki Tardif Holland | Ontologist | vtardif@google.com


On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 1:00 PM, James Bjork <jimbjork361@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am adding microdata to a dance studio's website and one of the pages
> lists results for the dance teams at various dance competitions. In
> addition to a numeric score, teams receive an award from a hierarchy class
> (ie silver, gold, or platinum) which is the most relevant description of
> the score.
>
> http://duluthdancecenter.com/news.shtml#2015results
>
> It would be helpful to have way to define "platinum" or "gold" as a score
> or award to avoid the possibility a search engine will include the dance
> studio page in searches looking for the literal use of the words. This is
> similar to the question raised in "other types of recipes".
>
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-schemaorg/2015Jul/0017.html
>
> One possibility would be to have "Award" or "Score" be a more specific
> type of https://schema.org/thing same as https://schema.org/Rating.
> Rating would seem to work for this purpose if I define silver, gold, or
> platinum a value of 1, 3, or 5 out of 5; however, the rating schema seems
> to be specific to the rating of a tangible item rather than the results of
> a https://schema.org/SportsEvent.
>
> Jim Bjork
>