[uf-discuss] Hours of Business Micro Format

[Othar Hansson]

For comparison, you might also be interested in checking out the
store-hours specification in the Good Relations RDF vocabulary:
http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/primer/#3.12_Step_10:_Shop_Locations_and_Opening_Hours

--Othar


On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 6:47 AM, thomas <thomas at stray.net> wrote:
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> hi andrew,
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> maybe you are interested in the "availability" vocabulary that tom heath started developing at vocamp ibiza: http://tomheath.com/tmp/availability.ttl
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> ciao
> thomas
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> Am 26.07.2009 um 01:42 schrieb Andrew Leer:
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>>   I was wondering if there was yet a Microformat for a business's hours of operation.  If not, I would like to suggest the discussion of creating one.  I am already aware that there is a MF for events (hCalendar) and perhaps it could be an extension of this so that it could still be read as an hCalendar MF, but that it would have some sort of information linking it to an hCard.
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>>   It seems to me that the hours of business would be useful when combined with the location of a location-required business like a coffeeshop or eatery.
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>>   In visiting the website a user could eventually send their location (either by entering it or via location-based-browsing) and based on the estimated time of arrival, the website could tell them if they have enough time to reach the location of the establishment before it closes.
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>> Thank you,
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>>    Andrew J. Leer
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