{"id":18,"date":"2016-03-29T15:22:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T15:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/schemaorg\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2016-08-24T17:13:14","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T17:13:14","slug":"how-we-work","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/schemaorg\/how-we-work\/","title":{"rendered":"How we work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Schema.org Community Group serves as\u00a0the public discussion forum for the schema.org project.<\/p>\n<p>As an independent project, Schema.org has its own\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/docs\/about.html#cgsg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">steering group<\/a>\u00a0(chaired by R.V.Guha) and site <a href=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/docs\/terms.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">terms of service<\/a>. All updates, changes and improvements to schema.org are now proposed, discussed and debated within the public Schema.org Community Group at W3C. The focus of this page and nearby materials is on\u00a0day-to-day practicalities. A more general overview of how the schema.org project works is <a href=\"http:\/\/webschemas.org\/docs\/howwework.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">also available<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The chair of the W3C Community Group (Dan Brickley) also serves as the\u00a0Schema.org project webmaster, managing the\u00a0workflow between the Community Group (CG) and Steering Group (SG). The project\u00a0makes periodic <a href=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/docs\/releases.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">new releases<\/a> based on rough consensus in the CG,\u00a0with the final approval of the\u00a0SG. SG\u00a0members also participate directly in the CG, whose discussions are often more active and detailed in <a href=\"http:\/\/github.com\/schemaorg\/schemaorg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">schema.org&#8217;s Github repository<\/a> than in the CG&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.w3.org\/Archives\/Public\/public-schemaorg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">mailing list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please do not use this Community Group as a mechanism for reporting bugs and problems with specific search engine&#8217;s products and features &#8211; company-specific sites are more effective for these topics.<\/p>\n<p>In future this page should grow to serve as a hub for practical information about schema.org collaborations.<\/p>\n<p>Nearby:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/schemaorg\/how-we-work\/work-in-progress-mechanisms-webschemas-and-the-pending-area\/\">Work in Progress mechanisms: webschemas and the &#8216;pending&#8217; section<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/schemaorg\/how-we-work\/issue-management-on-github\/\">GitHub Issue management on schema.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other Schema.org-related Community Groups at W3C:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/schemabibex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/schemabibex\/<\/a>\u00a0(Bibliographic)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/schema-course-extend\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/schema-course-extend\/<\/a>\u00a0(Courses)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/gao\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/gao\/<\/a>\u00a0(Automotive)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/schemed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/schemed\/<\/a>\u00a0(Medical)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/architypes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/architypes\/<\/a>\u00a0(Archives)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/tourismdata\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/tourismdata\/<\/a>\u00a0(Tourism)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/fibo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/fibo\/<\/a>\u00a0(Financial \/ FIBO)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/sport-schema\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/sport-schema\/<\/a>\u00a0(Sports)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/meat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/meat\/<\/a>\u00a0(Meat)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A technical guide to the mechanics of publishing schema.org releases is also <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/schemaorg\/schemaorg\/blob\/master\/RELEASING.TXT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">available<\/a> within the Github repository.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Schema.org Community Group serves as\u00a0the public discussion forum for the schema.org project. As an independent project, Schema.org has its own\u00a0steering group\u00a0(chaired by R.V.Guha) and site terms of service. All updates, changes and improvements to schema.org are now proposed, discussed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/schemaorg\/how-we-work\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/schemaorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/schemaorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/schemaorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/schemaorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/schemaorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/schemaorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/schemaorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/schemaorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}