<http://schema.org/description>
"Often when working with a textbox or some other control, it is necessary to call the Parse() method to do a conversion for our business object property. For example, consider a web form where you are assigning:    person.DateOfBirth = DateTime...."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://stevemichelotti.com/parse-nullable-types/>