How to mark up recurring events with Schema.org for Google?

Question

I'm using schema.org to mark up a page for a local business and I have a weekly (mon-thurs) recurring event that I'd like to send metadata on.

I've looked around the internetz and cannot seem to find any answers as to how I can properly mark this up. I did what a Google user group suggested by using openingHours even though I knew it wasn't part of the Event schema. Google called me on it of course.

Any suggestions as to how I can tag this?

I'm happy to change it to a different type if that works, though I am unsure as to what I could change it to. For reference, here is the page in question.

UPDATE I looked a bit into the Event type a bit more and found something called subEvent. Schema.org also says that "Repeated events may be structured as separate Event objects." but how on earth I can achieve this is beyond me. The main problem lies in the fact that the recurring event is largely undefined. It is just Mon-Thur, every week, for an indefinite period of time, so it makes no sense to try and give a bunch of actual dates like Thurs July 10, Tues July 15, etc.

followup If schema.org has no solution, are there any other microdata formats out there that could?

Answer 1

Currently, there is only the solution to create separate Event items for each recurrance, as described in its definition:

Repeated events may be structured as separate Event objects.

Related links:

• Mailing list thread: Proper schema.org markup of repeating / recurring events?
• Wiki page: WebSchemas/RepeatingEvents
• Issue: Schema.org should say how to describe repeating events

In the mentioned thread, Martin Hepp lists advantages of creating separate Event items for each single event:

• easier for consumers to query the data when each date is set explicitly
• you can model exceptions (cancelled, rescheduled or delayed events)