Re: schema.org/Place: replace faxNumber and telephone with contactPoint

Hi Matthias,

Thanks for your response.  The fact that "telephone" and "faxNumber" are text makes contactPoint seem not so useful:

writing:
<div itemprop="ContactPoint">
<div itemprop="contactType">Switchboard</div>
<div itemprop="telephone">02 42 68 53 00</div>
</div>

is pretty much the same as 

<div itemprop="telephone">Switchboard: 02 42 68 53 00 </div>

no?


On 3 Jun 2013, at 14:29, Matthias Tylkowski <matthias@binarypark.org>
 wrote:

> Dear Max,
> There is no cardinality restriction of schema  properties e.g., telephone and faxNumber may appear as many times as you wish.
> 
> telephone and faxNumber properties on ContactPoint are defined the same as in Place. They are text properties therefore there is no constraint on the format. Only an external processor would derive a proper telefone number from that text representation.
> 
> Regards Matthias
> 
> Am 31.05.2013 18:31, schrieb Max Froumentin:
>> Hi,
>> Some places have more than one fax number, telephone or any contact point. For instance, a switchboard, general enquiries, etc. Place has "telephone" but you can't describe phone numbers, like you can with the contactPoint attribute, found in Organization.
>> 
>> One could claim that a phone number belongs to an organisation and not a place, but:
>> - the "telephone" and "faxNumber" properties are already on Place, as text.
>> - my use-case is court houses, which I annotate as Courthouse, which descends from Place, not Organization.
>> 
>> Max.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>

Received on Monday, 3 June 2013 14:06:09 UTC