If anyone wants to check Dan's talk out, it's at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-6mhdjE1XE&feature=relmfu .
I wrote a blog post on the event that includes the video and gives a short summary of Dan's talk at http://archiveshub.ac.uk/linkinglives/?p=256
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On 17 May 2012, at 10:37, Jon Pratty wrote:
> For more on Google's Schema.org project, look at Dan Brickley's talk to the London Semantic Web Group at BBC TV Centre a few weeks ago.
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> Jon
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> The recent announcement of Google's integration of their 'Knowledge Graph' (e.g. http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/introducing-knowledge-graph-things-not.html, which 'currently contains more than 500 million objects, as well as more than 3.5 billion facts about and relationships between these different objects') into search results seems a pretty compelling reason to publish information that you want people to find on your website in structured formats, whether schema.org or something else.
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> For background, http://schema.org/ is a project from Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc that publishes 'a collection of schemas, i.e., html tags, that webmasters can use to markup their pages in ways recognized by major search providers'.
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> Their formats aren't perfect for museums, but aren they good enough to justify the effort of implementing it, given the potential benefits?
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> And is anyone already publishing their 'visit us', events or collections information with schema.org markup?
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> Cheers, Mia
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