More about our mission [via Meat Products Community Group]

Dear Members of the Group

Our goal is to propose, discuss, create and maintain extensions to schema.org
related to meat items commonly traded internationally. Let us briefly explain
what schema.org.



In the schema.org website we read:
Schema.org is a collaborative, community activity with a mission to create,
maintain, and promote schemas for structured data on the Internet, on web pages,
in email messages, and beyond.

Schema.org provides a core, basic vocabulary for describing the kind of entities
the most common web applications need. There is often a need for more
specialized and/or deeper vocabularies, that build upon the core. The extension
mechanisms facilitate the creation of such additional vocabularies.
With most extensions, we expect that some small frequently used set of terms
will be in core schema.org, with a long tail of more specialized terms in the
extension.

There are two kinds of extensions: reviewed/hosted extensions and external
extensions. Both kinds of extensions typically add subclasses and properties to
the core. Properties may be added to existing and/or new classes. More
generally, they are an overlay on top of the core, and so they may add
domains/ranges, superclasses, etc. as well. Extensions have to be consistent
with the core schema.org. Every item in the core (i.e., http://schema.org/) is
also in every extension. Extensions might overlap with each other in concepts
(e.g., two extensions defining terms for financial institutions, one calling it
FinancialBank and other calling it FinancialInstitution), but we should not have
the same term being reused to mean something completely different (e.g., we
should not have two extensions, one using Bank to mean river bank and the other
using Bank to mean financial institution).
Our meat.schema.org extension is intended to be a hosted extensions of
schema.org and as such it will share types and properties with the “core” of
schema.org.



More about schema.org:

 schema.org documentation
 Article "Schema.org: Evolution of Structured Data on the Web"

 



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Received on Thursday, 4 February 2016 21:03:53 UTC