Re: Socialnetworks of a person or organization

Use "account" and then smile.  Besides... your actually saying "account"
when you describe it as what you said "unambiguously indicates the item's
identity."

"unambiguously indicates the item's identity." = "account"


On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com> wrote:

> On 9 April 2014 16:24, Jason Douglas <jasondouglas@google.com> wrote:
> > -1  There's a difference between reference pages *about* the same entity
> and pages authored/controlled *by* the same entity.
>
> Is it a difference we want to fully capture here? I also control my
> homepage and various other pages that are not my socialAccount. But
> I've just heard another problem which I think also counts against this
> proposal: some entities (e.g. news organizations) have dozens of e.g.
> Twitter accounts ('sports news', 'music' etc). While it might be
> reasonable to point to them all with e.g. socialAccount, it might be
> that the best reference page for the entity is something like
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC --- and they'll all end up smushed
> together in a confusing way.
>
> So given Jason's point and this observation I'll back off from the
> proposal. So much for thinking-out-loud.
>
> Maybe the core concept is 'account', which suggests an account holder
> and a service provider, and hints at the ability to show (openid
> connect etc.) that you're the account holder. Dropping the word
> 'social' (which was discussed here a while back) does remove some of
> the fuzzyness.
>
> <div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">
> <span itemprop="name">Stephen Fry</span>
>     (<a itemprop="url" href="http://www.stephenfry.com/">stephenfry.com
> </a>,
>      <a itemprop="account" href="http://twitter.com/stephenfry
> ">twitter</a>,
>      <a itemprop="sameAs"
> href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Fry">wikipedia</a>)
> </div>
>  ?
>
> Dan
>
>


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