Re: [ontology-summit] Schema.org and COSMO

[Amanda Vizedom <amanda.vizedom@xxxxxxxxx>]

Pat,

This is an indirect route to answering your question:  The public-vocabs@xxxxxx discussion list http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-vocabs/ is a *great* way to get a sense of who is using schema.org and what for. 

I have no stake in, or relationship to, schema.org. I do find it extremely interesting, both because I have, in the past, worked in ontology-powered web search & discovery, and because it's a great, ongoing experiment in collaborative development, integration and reuse. I've been lurking on the list for about half a year, just listening and observing.

Contributors to the list include people at the three major search companies committed to consuming and using schema.org mark up when it is present. The majority of participants, however, appear to be people who are including such markup in sites and services. Much, much discussion involves cases in which some domain has some established concepts, sometimes even an ontology or vocabulary, and there is a desire to use schema.org markup for better findability & machine-interpretation, while integrate what they already have and do. Sometimes that involves creating extensions to schema.org, including discussion of how & where to fit them in, avoiding conflicts, confusion, and extra bulk while gaining whatever the intended benefits. Sometimes it is discussed and decided that the are of coverage is sufficiently specialized and outside of schema.org's aims that it is better not to extend it. And sometimes, reuse of existing schema.org elements is found to be suitable on its own, or with small amendments. 

A fair bit of deconfliction and bug-finding comes up there, too.  It's good lurking. And more to your point, Pat, it's an illuminating hub of people using schema.org, for one purpose or another.

Best,

Amanda

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Patrick Cassidy <pat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Kingsley,
   On the issue of where schema.org is used:

[KI] >Schema.org terms are extensively used right now, and the growth has

long
 >past the point of critical mass in regards to the World Wide Web [1][2].
 >

  I would like to get access to a functioning system that uses schema.org so
that I can see  **how** it is actually used (in all the gory detail) and
therefore how it might be improved.   The fact that Google uses it doesn't
provide me with any *measure* of its utility.

   Do you know who actually controls application using it, so that we can
contact those persons directly?

Pat

Patrick Cassidy
MICRA Inc.
cassidy@xxxxxxxxx
1-908-561-3416

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