Schema.org
Charles Nevile
@Chaals / Чаалз
Grupo CTO
Yandex?
- #1 Search engine (62%) in Russia
- #2 for mail (1: mail.ru)
- Maps, Music, Money, Market, …
- Translate (now
3642 languages)
- APIs, BEM (#b_), …
- Co-sponsor of Schema.org
Schema.org
- Metadata for Search engines
- Microdata, RDFa, JSON-LD, …
- Flat Vocabulary
- "Owned" by 4 search engines
- Technical discussion in public
Where we are
- Used by about 10% of public content
- English language documentation
- "Could use improvement"
- Improve choice of Term names
- Adding real multilingual examples
How we work
- public-vocabs@w3.org mailing list
- Wiki for proposals
- Final decisions by 4 sponsors
- Improving our publishing system
- "Pragmatic" changes made easily
Sports
Globally big deal
- (In most places)
- Different Sports are different
- Limited types of venue
- International leagues (eg UEFA)
Actions
Things you can do
- Yandex Islands, Gmail, …
- Terminology clashes
- How to extend
- (That's a general issue)
Microdata
- Political decision originally
- Yandex: The easiest spec to translate
- Led to wide deployment in Russia
- RDFa, JSON-LD have communities
- Problem: complex inverse mechanism
Look forward to
- Faster updates
- improving inverses in µdata
- better documentation
- Multilingual examples, case studies
- Terms to match the wide world