Re: Usage distinction between DefinedTerm and CategoryCode

Stuart, I know what you mean.

One of the original use cases was to mark up product categories against 
know codes, e.g. https://www.gs1.org/standards/gpc

But if you're using a term from a glossary (for example) then it is 
neither a code nor relates to a category, hence DefinedTerm.

You could argue that DefinedTerm would cover all cases, but that's not 
how I want to spend my time :) So we have both, and I tend to use 
CategoryCode when (a) dealing with alpha-numeric codes and (b) 
classifying something that seems to be a category; if possible I prefer 
DefinedTerm.

Phil

On 24/04/2019 14:34, Stuart Sutton wrote:
> Phil and others, both DefinedTerm and CodeCategory are new schema.org 
> <http://schema.org> types. I'm looking for the bright line that 
> distinguishes them in use. I've been watching the example encodings 
> and I'm not absolutely sure I can definitively distinguish when one is 
> appropriate to use and not the other.
>
> I think need a bit of narrative explanation since the json-ld examples 
> alone aren't enough and the definition of CategoryCode ("A category 
> code") is beyond useless.
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