Re: LocalBusinessDepartment proposal for schema.org.

Thad and Martin,

Are you proposing that the new type (LocalBusinessDepartment) would not be
a subtype of LocalBusiness at all, but a new top-level Thing with only
contactPoint, openingHours, and departmentOf properties?

That certainly would be nice and simple, and meet the needs of the
immediate use case.

I'm wary of trying to model over-generically all forms of organizational
divisions. LocalBusinessDepartment.departmentOf and the existing
LocalBusiness.branchOf are quite specific and clear.

Justin





On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Martin Hepp <
martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org> wrote:

>
> On Aug 28, 2013, at 3:54 PM, Thad Guidry wrote:
> ...
> >
> > 3. Borrow the property for contactPoint from Organization.
> >
> > Reduce, Reuse, Recycle... we should be heavy on the Reuse / Recycle of
> properties, and less so on the Reduce (promotion), since Reduce causes more
> confusion than worth, typically.
> > .
>
> I agree. In many cases, it is better to expand the domain of an existing
> property than to define a common super-type.
>
> This is also important since otherwise Web developers are flooded with
> properties for a given type. See the many properties that
>
>     http://schema.org/WebPage
>
> inherits from
>
>     http://schema.org/CreativeWork
>
> Many of them are conceptually valid yet practically not applicable to many
> Web pages.
>
> Martin
>
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