New type Activity?

Hi
I was just adding Schema.org for a tourist site. In particular activities
(Things to do at a location) and found a need for an Activity type.
Many tourism websites separate tourist activities from tourist sites (what
to do from what to see).

Existing types such as http://schema.org/Event seem to be meant for a single
event happening at a certain time at a certain location.
http://schema.org/TouristAttraction don’t really match for activities such
as shopping and eating out? From Wikipedia: “A tourist attraction is a place
of interest where tourists visit, typically for its inherent or exhibited
cultural value, historical significance, natural or built beauty, or
amusement opportunities.”
A page about Hiking should have links to places where you can go hiking, but
the activity hiking itself is not really a tourist attraction?

I would like to add activities that are also relevant in a non-tourist
setting. Using TouristAttraction (typically used for things you go to see)
therefore seem wrong. TouristAttraction is also a sub type of Place. Many
activities are place independent.

I would guess that search engine queries like “What to do in Rio” are just
as much used as “What to see in Rio”.
For example when searching for Shopping it would be nice to specify that i
mean the activity of shopping so I can get a list of pages about shopping
rather than a list of online shops.

There are also many sites that contain general non-tourist activities (e.g.
http://bobsdb.com) that could benefit from an Activity type.

I would therefore like to suggest the type: Activity  (description:
Something you can do at will, regularly or perhaps once in a lifetime)

I am sure someone else has better suggestions for sub types, properties and
descriptions. I was not able to find a good taxonomy or vocabulary but
here’s a few suggestions for sub types:


Activity/Tourism
(Camping, sightseeing, travelling, staying at hotels, caravan parks)

Activity/Outdoor sport and recreation
(Doing sports, golf, bowling, skiing, racing etc)

Activity/Indoor sport and recreation
(Go to swimming pools, sports halls, gymnasia, ice rinks, leisure centres
etc)

Activity/Outdoor informal recreation
(Go to parks, play spaces,  beaches, lakes, rivers)

Activity/Countryside recreation
(Going to country parks, national parks, having picnics, trails/cycle paths
etc)

Activity/Cultural recreation and heritage
(Going to theatres, concert, art centres/galleries, museums,  libraries,
zoological parks, aquaria, botanic gardens)

Activity/Arts and design
(Playing instruments, singing, dance, acting, theatre, opera, visual arts
and crafts, photography. Doing graphical design)

Activity/Collecting
(Trading antiques, collecting coins, stamps)

Activity/Entertainment
(Watching performing arts, comedy shows, going to the cinema, listening to
broadcasting, electronic or digital media, and film/television)

Activity/Gambling
(Going to bingo, casinos (involved playing for money)

Activity/Social recreation
(Pubs, Cafes and restaurants, dance clubs)

Activity/Spectating
(Football, cricket, rugby, tennis, greyhound/ horse racing)

Activity/Days out
(Various destinations including formal attractions such as Amusement and
theme parks, heritage attractions etc)

Activity/Shopping
(Window shopping)

Activity/Games
(Playing board games, card games, video games, children games etc)

Activity/Pleasure
(Go to the spa, get a manicure, massage, yoga, meditation)

Activity/Learning
(Self development, get coaching, reading for learning)

Activity/Selfless??
(Volunteering, community work)

Properties for Activity could be: time it typically takes to do, how many
you should be, how old you should be, expert level etc


Best regards
Roy Lachica
Webnodes Semantic CMS
www.webnodes.com