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We’ve just posted an update to the schema.org site, focussing on improved examples. Our last update introduced a new property called workPerformed which relates an Event to a CreativeWork performed at the event. Today’s improvements add examples of this property to MusicEvent and TheaterEvent. There are also new JSON-LD examples for MusicEvent, alongside additions showing RDFa, Microdata and JSON-LD examples for various local business-related types including Restaurant, Store, Pharmacy, Corporation, PostalAddress, Organization, ContactPoint and OpeningHoursSpecification. This update also includes improvements…
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When we launched schema.org almost 3 years ago, our main focus was on providing vocabularies for describing entities — people, places, movies, restaurants, … But the Web is not just about static descriptions of entities. It is about taking action on these entities — from making a reservation to watching a movie to commenting on a post.…
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The Schema.org partners, in collaboration with experts from the BBC and IPTC/SportsML, are pleased to share a proposal for improving the Schema.org sports vocabulary. The proposal includes support for describing sports organizations, athletes, and events, with a focus on the most common sports types being published on the Web today. Although the proposal includes support for describing sports…
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It has long been important to help users find the “right content”. With the incredible diversity of the people who use the Web, and the devices they are using it from, it is more important than ever to find the content that works best for a given user’s current situation. Content metadata has an important role to play…
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[guest post by Yves Raimond, BBC Research & Development.] The new version of schema.org includes the TV and radio extension we have been working on with Jean-Pierre Evain (EBU) and Dan Brickley (for schema.org). This update offers improved support for describing TV and radio shows, for example: Embedding such data in web pages means that…
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Schema.org version 1.0d has been published. This release brings a number of practical additions and improvements – here’s a high level overview. As always, the schema.org site has a full listing of the entire vocabulary, and W3C’s WebSchemas group has details of the background discussions. Civic Services. As we described earlier, this work provides vocabulary such as GovernmentService for describing services of various…
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Various members of the W3C Web Schemas group (where we collaborate on improvements to schema.org) are at the International Semantic Web conference in Sydney this week. If you’re at the conference, we’ve arranged for an ad-hoc vocabulary collaboration room to be available on thursday and friday. Feel free to make use of the room during those times…
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When people are in need of government services, they often turn to search engines, but the top result may not be for the service of interest. A new vocabulary, similar to the European Commission ISA Core Public Service vocabulary, has been proposed to improve search engines’ understanding of these services. It is intended to provide…
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We’d like to take a minute to share our enthusiasm for some recent work at W3C: JSON-LD. Schema.org is all about shared vocabulary – it helps integrate data across applications, Web sites and data formats. We are adding JSON-LD to the list of formats we recommend for use with schema.org, alongside Microdata and RDFa – each has…
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Today, we are pleased to announce that we are integrating e-commerce schemas from the GoodRelations project into Schema.org. The addition of these widely adopted schemas into schema.org will make it more easy for Web publishers to express structured data about products, offers, companies, stores and related facts. Schema.org was designed as a platform where the Web community…
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