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Phil Barker <[log in to unmask]> has just e-mailed the following.
> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 16:54:06
> From: Phil Barker <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: What is schema.org
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> Hello all.
> As part of our work for Creative Commons on managing the Learning
> Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI), Cetis today publish a new technical
> briefing paper “What is schema.org?”.
>
> We often find that when explaining the technology approach of LRMI we
> are mostly talking about schema.org, so this briefing, which describes
> the schema.org specification for a technical audience should be of
> interest to anyone thinking about implementing or using LRMI in a
> website or other tool. It should also be of interest to people who plan
> to use schema.org for describing other types of resource.
>
> You can download the briefing from http://publications.cetis.ac.uk/2014/960
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> We would welcome comments and discussion of any of the issues raised.
> Other similar briefings are planned which will address LRMI more directly.
>
> Best regards, Phil
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On Thu, 5 Jun 2014, Darren Stephens wrote:
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> I've also heard (I forget where) that amazon are doing similar things in product searches and pages, for that reason. Seems like a sound move - also for calendar (hcal/vcal) aware apps too
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> On 5 Jun 2014, at 15:17, "Martin Filliau" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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> Google seems to be using data annotated with schema.org<http://schema.org> schemas in their Knowledge Graph as explained in [1], [2] is a good read on how it could impact SEO…
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> Cheers
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> [1] https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/4620133?hl=en
> [2] http://www.seoskeptic.com/json-ld-google-knowledge-graph-schema-org-seo/
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> Martin Filliau
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> University of Oxford, IT Services
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> On 5 Jun 2014, at 12:11, Paul Boag <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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> There seems to be little doubt that Google use schema.org<http://schema.org/> to enhance their listings and to decide on ranking but there is no solid information on exactly how.
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> I suspect this will be a growth area over the coming years so I think it is probably a good practice to get into.
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> For example, I can imagine Google Glasses and Siri making use of the markup to pull back data.
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> On 5 June 2014 at 09:56:22, Kevin Mears ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) wrote:
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> Hi everyone
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> I’ve just seen an example of one of our web editors marking up html to be friendly to schema.org<http://schema.org/>
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> What are peoples’ thoughts on the use of that through your sites?
>
> Have you marked up much with it, and if so how useful was it?
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