Use of PhysicalActivity outside of life sciences domain

[ldodds]

I'm currently working with a community group to define how to publish opportunities for people to take part in physical activities.

We're building around schema.org currently. There's a draft specification which outlines how we need to describe data around activities:

• https://www.openactive.io/modelling-opportunity-data/#activities (Activities and Programmes)
• https://www.openactive.io/modelling-opportunity-data/#activity-code-physicalactivity-code- (PhysicalActivity)

I'm trying to understand how our requirements align with PhysicalActicvity and PhysicalActivityCategory defined in the life science dimension.

My questions/comments so far:

• Are there examples of these types in use that I can refer to?
• I'm not really clear of the distinction between PhysicalActivity and PhysicalActivityCategory
• Is the PhysicalActivity type intended for use outside of life sciences? Most of its properties and description relate to that domain
• There's some potential clashes with properties like "recognisingAuthority". E.g. in the UK Sport England has recognised sports. But recognisingAuthority is defined in terms of a "medical practice".

I'm keen to build on existing work where necessary, but for most of our needs the category system outlined in #894 may be sufficient, assuming we define a property to associate an Event with an activity that will be included.

Tagging in #1116 to link this to the tracking issue.

[twamarc]

Hi @ldodds, although the ´´´ PhysicalActivity ´´´and ´´´PhysicalActivityCategory´´´ are defined in the life science extension they are rather generically defined here, and therefore they can be used outside lifescience domain as well. Personally I have no examples to share or uses-cases (despite the use between 10 and 100 domains recorded). What is the purpose of your project? Any concrete use-case (a public domain) to consume/use your mappings to schema.org? ~Marc

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