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Schema.org v6.0

by fxbois on 1/23/20, 11:21 AM with 35 comments

  • by onli on 1/23/20, 1:50 PM

    It's kind of funny how specific some of those changes are. Issue #2373: Improvements around real estate description including the addition of a property accommodationFloorPlan and type FloorPlan for use when a number of accomodation entries share a common layout. Added numberOfFullBathrooms and yearBuilt. Okay then!

    In general the schema markup is great though. It's semantic web stuff done right: It's not hard to implement, it has tangible benefits, and there is proper tooling around it like the schema markup tester. And best of all: While this is mainly about changing how search results look, there is nothing stopping other software from using that markup. It's really one of the positive things Google is involved in.

    It's only frustrating if what you want to do is not supported. I'd love to markup my processor and graphics card benchmark results (the ordered result list), but there is nothing in the schema that would allow me to do that :/

  • by carlbarrdahl on 1/23/20, 2:22 PM

    What if there was a kind of search engine with support for all these schemas? An open platform for interfacing with websites supporting this structued data.

    I know Google supports some of them (Product, Recipe, Article, etc...). This would support all of them as well as a way to push Actions (eg, OrderAction to order food from a restaurang)

    Websites would expose json+ld data instead of html and clients could decide how these responses would render and interact with.

    Does anything like this exist?

  • by jszymborski on 1/23/20, 6:18 PM

    Is there a way for me to search what schemas are defined?

    Say I wanted a Schema for what I think of as a "Protein" or "Gene", how would I know that one exists or that I should write one myself?

  • by tekkk on 1/23/20, 2:46 PM

    I created an npm library for adding some basic Schema data (along with other data) for webpages and blogpages, but I have to admit it's quite a tangled mess to figure what properties you should and what are even important. It's nice that people at Schema.org try to figure out a way to describe every relation and attribute for a webpage, but I as a developer can only see an endless chore with little idea what actually benefits eg SEO ranking and what doesn't.

    It would be nice if Google could shed some light what properties they consider the most useful and what can be used for special SERP widgets. One thing that I especially was mystified by were the Actions eg ViewActions or SearchActions. Are ViewActions just specifications for viewing the page in some app? And SearchActions for showing that you have search implemented, which might be shown in the SEO result as a search bar?

  • by cwmma on 1/23/20, 6:34 PM

    How long until Schema.org degrades into something like The Version War?

    1. https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/48fdb8829e239

  • by mister_hn on 1/23/20, 3:08 PM

    But is it there really anyone using schemas? Until know, I've seen almost no example of real usage in production services.

    Can somebody point me to some real cases?

  • by sfusato on 1/24/20, 9:44 AM

    I used to implement Schema.org for everything that was possible in my previous projects.

    Now, working on a new project, I think I'm only going to stick with 'breadcrumbs' and that's it.

    The thing is that I don't like how Google is evolving. The "take everything and use it for their own profit" attitude while giving less and less space to the publishers as time goes by.