We’d like to share a link to a recent set of presentation slides by Peter Mika, Ralph Rabbat, Philip Bohannon of Yahoo! The talk by Ralph Rabbat was part of the Industry Track during October’s International Semantic Web Conference in Bonn. Slides (in .pptx format) are linked from the conference site and describe some work they’re doing…

As a result of our continued discussions and collaborations with publishers, implementers and standards-makers, we’re pleased to give advance notice of a new way of adopting schema.org’s structured data vocabulary. W3C’s RDF Web Applications group are right now putting the finishing touches to the latest version of the RDFa standard. This work opens up new possibilities also…

We’re happy to announce that schema.org, working together with the United States Office of Science and Technology Policy, has added support for marking up job postings on the web. Leveraging this markup, the US Veterans administration has created a search widget that is accessible across a growing number of federal websites including nrd.gov and whitehouse.gov,…

One of the primary goals in creating schema.org was to simplify structured data markup requirements for content creators across search engines, which we hope will drive greater adoption across the Web. In that vein, we’re very happy that Yandex has announced its support for schema.org. In addition to being a major consumer of schema.org markup, Yandex will be increasingly…

Our Discussion Group will be moving to the W3C forum, which will use the public-vocabs@w3.org mailing list. The Schema.org Google Group will not be completely shut down, however we do encourage all discussion of vocabulary, schema and deployment practicalities to move to public-vocabs@w3.org mailing list. These are also linked from the Documents page. This comes out of a plan for closer collaboration between Schema.org and other related efforts. The…

On September 21st, we held the first ever schema.org workshop in Mountain View, California. There were 75 attendees from web markup & standards groups (including W3C, Microformats, RDFa, Creative Commons), as well as other search engines (Ask, Yandex, Baidu), and top content publishers and tools vendors (including NYTimes, Disney, Foursquare, Shopping.com, OpenTable, Drupal, Sharepoint). The…

We’re happy to announce that schema.org has significantly expanded its support for marking up news articles, based on the rNews standard created by the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC). New properties have been added to NewsArticle as well as other related types such as CreativeWork. For example, you can now specify a dateline for an…

On June 2nd we announced a collaboration between Bing, Google and Yahoo to create and support a standard set of schemas for structured data markup on web pages. Although our companies compete in many ways, it was evident to us that collaboration in this space would be good for each search engine individually and for the…