Re: Socialnetworks of a person or organization

+1 to this general idea, to David's fashioning this as an "Account" (or
perhaps "OnlineAccount") rather than "SocialAccount", and to Thad's thought
that this should be separated from "sameAs".

Property-wise this need not be verbose, but I think "url" in itself is
inadequate.  In structuring account data for a person or organization
supporting  - aside from the properties inherited from Thing - something
like "id" would be useful, to indicate the account holder's social network
handle or exposed login name (and perhaps a property supporting the
declaration of the entity to which the account belonged?).

And simply having this as a separate itemtype would be useful, as a single
individual or (more often) organization can have multiple accounts on the
same network.  E.g.:

<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization">
  <h1 itemprop="name">Acme News Service</h1>
  <p>Twitter accounts</p>
  <p itemprop="account" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Account">
    <a href="http://twitter.com/acmebreaking" itemprop="url"><span
itemprop="id">@AcmeBreaking</span></a> - <span itemprop="name">Acme
Breaking News</span>
  <span></p>
  <p itemprop="account" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Account">
    <a href="http://twitter.com/acmecom" itemprop="url"><span
itemprop="id">@AcmeCom</span></a> - <span itemprop="name">Acme Indepth
Commentary</span>
  <span></p>
</div>


On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 8:56 AM, David Deering
<david@touchpointdigital.net>wrote:

>  I see.  Thanks, Thad.  Up until this point, I have been using the
> "sameAs" property to link to other pages, but I wasn't sure if there was a
> better way to define things for search engines.  No problem, that method
> works for me.  Thanks.
>
> David
>
>
>
> On 1/24/2014 10:46 AM, Thad Guidry wrote:
>
> David,
>
>  We already have your needs fulfilled with the property "sameAs" on
> http://schema.org/LocalBusiness or even just
> http://schema.org/Organization  ... just use that and it works today.
>  This proposal for "Account" is for representing Account identities
> sometimes represented as a url and not "__Pages__ that are created for
> AccountHolders or that represent them topically on a page" as I understand
> it.
>
>  --
> -Thad
> +ThadGuidry <https://www.google.com/+ThadGuidry>
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>
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:37 AM, David Deering <
> david@touchpointdigital.net> wrote:
>
>>  I've been listening to the conversation and have been debating with
>> something myself.  I'd like to see a way in which business listings and
>> business profile pages could also be distinguished through Schemas.
>> Particularly, I'm referring to a business' listing on sites such as Yelp,
>> Angie's List, YP.com, Foursquare, Infogroup, Acxiom, Factual, Nokia,
>> CitySearch, and even listings such as Google+ Local, Bing Places, and Yahoo
>> Local.  Whereas a Google+ Local or Business/Brand page could be considered
>> a social account, I don't believe that the others could.
>>
>> So I'm not sure if SocialAccount would fit those applications, and I'm
>> also not sure if Account would be too general or vague.  Maybe
>> BusinessListing, BusinessPage, ProfilePage, or even Page would be a better
>> suited type for those pages, I don't know.  So I'm just throwing that
>> out there to get everyone's thoughts.  Thanks.
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>>
>
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