Introduce ActionPlatform class to be used as range of actionPlatform

[betehess]

actionPlatform currently accepts Text and URL. It is not clear which values are allowed.

Here are a few things we could do:

• create a new ActionPlatform class, "A high level platform where an Action can be performed."
• make actionPlatform accept a ActionPlatform
• add a few ActionPlatform individuals

Google's documentation currently defines the following platforms:

• http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform: Works on desktop web browsers.
• http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform: Works on mobile web browsers.
• http://schema.org/AndroidPlatform: Works on Android native app.
• http://schema.org/IOSPlatform: Works on iOS native app.

I am still not sure if it's a good idea to add too many individuals in Schema.org for a case like that. Unlike DayOfWeek, we know we'll have to add new things and that approach is not extensible. Maybe we could try to add this information in Wikidata directly instead? Here are a few candidates:

• http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q466
• http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1043805
• http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q94
• http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q48493

After we have annotated those entities in Wikidata, we could provide a SPARQL query that lists all the entities being a ActionPlatform.

Or maybe that's not a good idea? :-)

[danbri]

I advised against finalizing an enumeration at this stage (some notes in #1121) but explorations towards that are certainly useful... /cc @vholland

[betehess]

I totally agree re: "I advised against finalizing an enumeration at this stage".

I somehow missed #1121, sorry for that. Should I close this issue? Or should we discuss possible paths to be explored here? Not sure how to proceed on that one :-)

[stewardson]

Did this issue get resolved?

Attempting to add ReserveAction schema as Google recommends here https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/local-business

However Google's structured testing tool https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/ reports the value as invalid:

https://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform (The attribute actionPlatform has an invalid value.)

https://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform currently 404's and the enumeration values suggested here #773 e.g. DesktopWebPlatform is also an invalid value.

Or is this issue closed and therefore this particular schema not supported by Google?

[danbri]

@betehess - still interested?

[danbri]

Closing for #3057 to follow up on the broad proposal