- From: Kurt Maine <kurt@develohost.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:41:51 -0700
- To: <public-vocabs@w3.org>
I would like to bring everyones attention to MITS, or Multifamily Information and Transactions Standards. They have attempted to come up with an XML markup standard specifically for multifamily residences: http://www.mitsproject.com Their purpose is obviously not for standardizing the Web and making our Real Estate sites more searchable - they have been attempting to come up with this standard simply for data transaction between "multifamily firms, technology vendors and providers, owners, managers, investors, consumers, and other audiences". They are sponsored by some big names: Apartments.com, Move.com, LexisNexis, Rent.com, National Apartment Association, and many more. I encourage everyone interested in this area to become familiar with the standards they have come up with. They have been at this since 2002, and I think we can learn a lot from them, and hopefully speed up our process and debate considerably. Much (nearly all, as far as I can tell) of their internal discussion and planning is very much closed, likely because they and their backers have a business interest in coming up with their standard, which they may be able to license or sell as a service. This is just speculation based on the fact that the majority of their information is password protected on their site. It is USD $1,000 anually just to participate in their discussion. I digress, and again, would simply like to encourage all to take a look at their current schema. You can view their "Property Marketing" schemas here: http://www.mitsproject.com/Content/ServeContent.cfm?menuID=463&ContentItemID=2918 I suggest viewing the XSL file, as it is the easiest to consume, and is in a very simple format. Their "Property Marketing" schema seems to be one of the few areas they discuss that we'd be interested in.
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