Re: Schema.org: what schema is best suited for covering pages of word definitions?

Thank you all for the replies! I am going to look into this.

Greetings,
Bart

2016-07-25 11:44 GMT+02:00 Bart Kleijngeld <bartkleijngeld@ensie.nl>:

> Hello!
>
> I am looking into Schema.org as a means of improving SEO for our product.
> It's pretty clear to me why it makes sense to use it, but I'm struggling to
> choose an appropriate schema which fits my needs.
>
> Our product can be described approximately as a kind of dictionary, where
> word has its own page, which is composed of a brief definition, followed by
> a more extensive elaboration on the meaning. Like so:
>
> WORD [title]
>
>
>
> definition paragraph
>
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>> description paragraph
>
>
>
> - list of sources
>
>
>
>
> So my question would be: what schema is best suited for my needs, and if
> no of the existing options suffices, would you recommend me to create my
> own scheme? I can imagine using existing schemes benefits SEO better, but
> I'm a layman on the subject.
>
> So far the best option seems to be the Article scheme, which has an
> articleSection property which can be used to distinguish between definition
> as description, however not semantically, so I wonder if there's a better
> option I'm overlooking. Also, a decent property covering listed sources
> seems to be lacking, since I don't consider citations and mentions to quite
> respect the actual semantic meaning.
>
> Thanks!
>