Re: WebApplication != WebService

I am not sure I understand the problem here, but keep in mind that schema:Product is a *role* that a schema:Thing can have: that of being the object of a schema:Offer.
schema:Product is conceptually not disjoint from any other type (socially likely from some, e.g. schema:Person, ...).

So there is not necessarily a formal inconsistency here. schema:Product stresses that the entity is / could be related to a schema:Offer, but other types do not rule out that.

Martin




On 06 Oct 2014, at 21:48, ☮ elf Pavlik ☮ <perpetual-tripper@wwelves.org> wrote:

> Howdy,
> 
> While tweaking some schema:Action examples I've noticed inconsistent way
> of referring to what I would call a WebService.
> 
> * http://schema.org/OrderAction gives Amazon type schema:Product
> * http://schema.org/IgnoreAction gives social.com type schema:WebPage
> * http://schema.org/BookmarkAction gives Instagram type schema:Product
> * http://schema.org/CheckInAction gives aa.com type schema:WebApplication
> * http://schema.org/FollowAction gives Twitter type schema:Product
> 
> My first thought was to change them all to schema:WebApplication which I
> added to TODO checklist in https://github.com/danbri/schemaorg/pull/15
> 
> But in my recent work which heavily focuses on Cross Origin Resource
> Sharing[1], decoupled interfaces [2] and unhosted web apps [3] I see
> *fundamental difference* between an App and Service. For me an App runs
> on device *locally* and can interact with *any number of remote*
> Services. Also Twiter, Instagram, Amazon etc. fit for me more as sub
> type of http://schema.org/Service People can already use all kind of
> Apps to use those Services.
> 
> +/-1 for Thing > Intangible > Service > WebService ?
> 
> Which could add among other properties termsOfService -
> https://tosdr.org/ (BTW also unhosted.org spin-off)
> 
> http://schema.org/WebApplication has stuff like
> downloadUrl, screenshot etc. which fits what I would consider an App :)
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> 
> [1] http://enable-cors.org/
> [2] http://decoupledcms.org/
> [3] https://unhosted.org/
>

Received on Tuesday, 7 October 2014 11:56:57 UTC