Re: best practice to represent social media accounts for org like Fire departments, Police, etc.

Thank you, Dan.
It is nice to cross paths again (we collaborated on
https://schema.org/GovernmentService when I was at Google.org).

Wikidata is going very deep with one property per social media "entity",
e.g. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2397 for YouTube. This can
open a can of worms: what defines a social media entity, who is worthy of
such a property, why is my social media website not in the list, etc.?

I am wearing my "civic data lenses", with a focus on city and government
services.
I would like to be able to list all their social media accounts and for
what purpose they use them.

I would argue that social media is a form of ContactPoint. The current
version of ContactPoint was designed pre-social media.

Supporting social media *and* messaging apps (e.g. signal, telegram, etc.)
would be super relevant.

1. Most social media have a web interface: having a url should be enough
and we get it for free from Thing.
2. For messaging apps, we need to capture the user handle/id but also the
name of the app.
Maybe having a new DigitalContactPoint schema (parent == ContactPoint ??)
with a new property called userid to capture the user account.

In the meantime, what would you recommend for my FDNY example?
The issue I have with sameAs is that I cannot capture the fact that FDNY
has multiple channels, one for casual announcements, one for critical
announcements, etc.
ContactPoint is a bit of an overkill and does not convey the fact that this
is a social media account.

regards,

Arnaud

On Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 5:07 AM Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com> wrote:

> +Ryan
>
> I have discussed the idea of modeling accounts with Ryan (cc:d) from time
> to time. It could be useful but as ever it is hard to know how deep to go.
>
> Dan
>
> On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 at 22:04, Arnaud Sahuguet <arnaud.sahuguet@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I am trying to represent the various media accounts using by New York
>> City fire department. The list is at
>> https://www.nyc.gov/site/fdny/connect/social-media/social-media.page .
>>
>> If I want to attach the Twitter/X account and Facebook account of FDNY, I
>> could do
>> @prefix s: <http://schema.org/> .
>> <https://www.nyc.gov/site/fdny/> a s:Organization ;
>>   s:sameAs <https://twitter.com/FDNY> ;
>>   s:sameAs <https://www.facebook.com/FDNY> .
>>
>> Is there a better way that conveys the fact these accounts are social
>> media accounts?
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> --
>> Arnaud
>>
>>

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Arnaud Sahuguet