- From: Dan Scott <dan@coffeecode.net>
- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 00:06:23 -0400
- To: Thad Guidry <thadguidry@gmail.com>
- Cc: Martin Hepp <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org>, "public-vocabs@w3.org" <public-vocabs@w3.org>
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 04:19:20PM -0500, Thad Guidry wrote: > +1 you have my positive response... Thanks! > I still would like to see the term "intangible" thrown into the Product > definition however. > > """ > Any offered product or service--(tangible or intangible) for example: a > pair of shoes; a concert > ticket; a rental car; a haircut; or an episode of a TV show streamed > online. > """ I understand with your sentiment, and tried a few variations on working "intangible" into the definition, but found that it complicated the sentence structure and weakened the primary focus on "product or service". I also worried that it would introduce potential confusion with http://schema.org/Intangible. Therefore, I have updated http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/wiki/Broaden_Offer_usage by adding a proposed new definition for http://schema.org/Product as follows: """ Any offered product or service. For example: a pair of shoes; a concert ticket; the rental of a car; a haircut; or an episode of a TV show streamed online. """ By making the definition a clear, short statement that leads with "Any", and following the definition with a list of examples that includes a majority of intangibles, I believe that the reader will understand that "any" really does include intangibles. Dan P.S. My obsessiveness with word-smithing stems from a prior life as a technical writer. My apologies for subjecting the list to said obsession...
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