Schema.org support

published by Michael Hausenblas on Fri, 2011-09-09 08:00

In early June 2011, the three big search engines Bing, Google and Yahoo! introduced Schema.org, a collection of terms that webmasters can use to markup their pages to improve the display of search results. The collection of terms was published originally in HTML only. LATC has taken the initiative and provided, within 24h, an initial RDFS version of the Schema.org terms via a new site: Schema.RDFS.org with the aim to support Schema.org deployment and usage with a special focus on Linked Data.

We have since extended the site to:

  • Provide mark-up examples and tutorials about publishing & consuming data with Schema.org terms in RDFa, microdata and JSON.
  • Maintain mappings from Web Data vocabularies such as the DBpedia ontology or SIOC to Schema.org terms.
  • List tools and libraries that are able to consume or produce Schema.org-based data.
  • Automatically scrape the Schema.org terms on a daily basis and generate dumps in RDF serialisations, JSON and CSV.
Work Package: 
best-practices