Re: International identity data standards?

On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 at 22:25, Justin Richer <jricher@mit.edu> wrote:

> This is going to be true of any data standard no matter how good it is. I
> can tell you, this crowd loves schema.org, but most of the internet has
> never heard of it and doesn’t care about it or JSON-LD. I’m not making a
> judgement on how good any of the technology is, I’m simply saying that most
> of the world simply does not care that it exists because it by and large
> solves problems that they don’t see as problems.
>

This isn't entirely true, schema.org in the form of JSON-LD or microdata is
used by around a third of internet sites for SEO[1], including many large
sites like Best Buy, Target, Apple (but excluding Facebook and Amazon…).
Content management systems like the widely used Yeost Wordpress plugin, and
major forum software like phpbb, as well as platforms like Shopify also
support it. The purpose is precise indexing by Google, Bing, Yandex, and
Yahoo, and increasingly new features that support voice agents and
aggregated applications where a web site is not required for use of data
(see [2]). I would therefore say it is a meta standard that is more widely
known than other comparative standard, with a network effect and community
development process as additional advantages.

If the documentation for individual items were as good as [2], as well of
course as several significant institutions committing to implementation
details, we could move on to the next things.

David

1.
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Has_schemaorg_vocabularies_been_widely_used_in_web_design
from
2016, use is expected to have increased from them
2. https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/job-posting