RE: Ideas for evaluating impact of Schema.org?

Hi Suzanne, 

Not sure if you've heard from others, but I think the easiest way to measure the effectiveness of schemifying your data would be to only schemify some of it and then see how the control group measures up. You would also need to hold off on making other changes to those collections during the data collection period.

Ideally this would be some collection where you have existing usage data, search rankings, and/or other metrics that you could benchmark against.

When I was at Columbia University Libraries, we schemified our digital repository collections all at once--and we did so at the same time as we were adding meta-headers to facilitate Google Scholar visibility. In retrospect this made it difficult to make supportable claims about the impact of these changes, though we did certainly notice improvements in a variety of metrics (we had an article in the Journal of Library Metadata about it, if you're curious to learn more).

Good luck,

Rob

From: PilskS@si.edu
To: public-schemabibex@w3.org
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 16:14:15 +0000
Subject: Ideas for evaluating impact of Schema.org?