Re: Eurocentrism, incorrect unit abbreviations, and proprietary Royalist Engish (sic) terms

How does that compare with the pattern in
https://schema.org/docs/hotels.html ?

On Thu, 12 Jul 2018, 21:54 Anthony Moretti, <anthony.moretti@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Want to make one last proposal if I may. On CampingPitch the issue isn't
> British vs American English, the broader issue is that space and time are
> infinitely divisible - regions of space and time can be made of smaller and
> smaller regions that can be described by the same name. Campsite is the
> first time Schema is encountering this phenomenon I believe.
>
> I think the desire is to distinguish the smaller regions one can *rent*:
>
> Campsite
>
>     RentableCampsite
>
> OfficeSpace
>
>     RentableOfficeSpace
>
> ParkingSpace
>
>     RentableParkingSpace
>
> PlayArea
>
>     RentablePlayArea
>
>
> I would actually prefer to not have CampingPitch at all and use MTEs, but
> from reading this thread it seems that approach has its problems.
>
> Does this approach, describing space as rentable, sound plausible to
> anybody?
>
> Anthony
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 5:24 PM Thad Guidry <thadguidry@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Joe,
>>
>> As others have mentioned...
>>
>> The reason that Schema.org would not want to maintain 6,500 language
>> versions, is the same reason that we don't have 6,500 versions of these
>> HTML tags
>>
>> <head>
>> <title>
>> <body>
>>
>> <cabeza>
>> <titulo>
>> <cuerpo>
>>
>> Schema.org syntax is absorbed by Machines 1st, Humans 2nd.  Just like any
>> other programming language or interoperable standard for machine
>> consumption.
>>
>> Schema.org syntax is not a formatting syntax like CSS, but instead a web
>> standard like HTML.  And it took us a long time to get here and even longer
>> to get JSON-LD propagated enough so that developers are now much more
>> comfortable.
>>
>> Hope that helps,
>> -Thad
>> (the same guy who won't stop you or anyone from creating those 6499 other
>> language versions of Schema.org...go for it ! , and we'll gladly add them
>> into our repository !)
>>
>>

Received on Friday, 13 July 2018 06:05:27 UTC