Re: Events -- online -- how to markup?

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Ali Watters
<ali.watters@creativelive.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> When marking up events what is considered best practice for events that
> can be attended online?
>
> Events appears to be requiring a physical location via Place.
>
> Example
>
>
>    1.   <div itemprop="location" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Place">
>    2.     <a itemprop="url" href="wells-fargo-center.html">
>    3.     Wells Fargo Center
>    4.     </a>
>    5.     <div itemprop="address" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/PostalAddress">
>    6.       <span itemprop="addressLocality">Philadelphia</span>,
>    7.       <span itemprop="addressRegion">PA</span>
>    8.     </div>
>    9.   </div>
>
>
> Would omitting address and just including url be appropriate?
>
> Using google's data highlighter address is listed as required -- how
> closely does the data highlighter match the spec?
>
Personally I usually use a string (e.g. "Online") as value for location,
but I'm also curious to hear if there is a better way to do this.

Steph.