Re: Proposal: series of "Advanced Use" articles

I'm glad that proposal received such a positive response!

Just thinking about the mechanics of it, since the content of the main 
schema.org domain needs to be deployed from github, it may be easier to 
set up a new subdomain (http://tutorials.schema.org?), add a CMS 
(Drupal?), and then control the publishing of tutorials through the CMS 
rather than having them dependent on release deployments to the main 
schema.org domain. Any existing tutorials linked from 
http://schema.org/docs/documents.html could be re-keyed into the CMS on 
the subdomain, and 301 redirects set up.

Paul

On 10/04/15 15:20, Aaron Bradley wrote:
> Big +1 to your proposal Paul.  And thanks for the URLs Martin and Dan, 
> I look forward to checking these out.
>
> I'm enthusiastic about a locus /on /the schema.org <http://schema.org> 
> site where articles and tutorials both because it's the likeliest 
> place a would-be implementer is going to turn for that information, 
> and because other sources of information about schema.org 
> <http://schema.org> and its supporting syntaxes can be extremely 
> difficult to find (try uncovering a source about the use of itemref in 
> the schema.org <http://schema.org> context that's coherent) or inaccurate.
>
> Alas, proliferate in that last category are articles written by SEOs - 
> which, unsurprisingly, are also often those likeliest to surface as in 
> response to long-tail queries on schema.org <http://schema.org> 
> subjects.  Those resources that are inaccurate aren't willfully so, 
> it's just that schema.org <http://schema.org> is a pretty difficult 
> thing for marketers.  But it's exactly because search marketers are 
> among the biggest advocates and de facto implementation leads for 
> structured data that quality information for them on the schema.org 
> <http://schema.org> site would be such a benefit.
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 6:56 AM, Dan Scott <denials@gmail.com 
> <mailto:denials@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On the RDFa + schema.org <http://schema.org> front, I put together
>     a set of progressively complex self-guided tutorials ("codelabs")
>     for SWIB 14 late last year; they're part of
>     https://coffeecode.net/swib14/preconference/
>
>     While the exercises are focused on on a library audience, the
>     principles are broadly applicable and move from simple
>     pure-literal structured data with lots of blank nodes up to rich
>     linked data.
>
>     I've licensed the content as CC-BY-SA 4.0 so perhaps it's at least
>     potential source material?
>
>     Dan Scott
>     Laurentian University
>
>
>     On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 at 03:05 Paul Watson
>     <lazarus@lazaruscorporation.co.uk
>     <mailto:lazarus@lazaruscorporation.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>         Hi
>
>         Having been on the public-vocabs list for a couple of years
>         (and now on
>         this list) I've learnt a huge amount about schema.org
>         <http://schema.org> (and RDFa and
>         Microdata) that's simply not covered in the run-of-the-mill basic
>         tutorials around the web (which are primarily concerned with
>         SEO) or in
>         the examples on schema.org <http://schema.org>
>
>         What I'd like to propose is that those with a great deal of this
>         knowledge write some "advanced/intermediate" articles to be
>         published on
>         http://schema.org/docs/documents.html . These would be
>         tutorials that go
>         into more detail than the basic "here's how to mark up a simple
>         product/article/etc.".
>
>         I don't know if there's an appetite to write these, but I do
>         believe
>         that there's an appetite to read them, and they would be a
>         fantastic
>         resource for publishers, and would help increase the use of
>         schema.org <http://schema.org>
>
>         Regards,
>
>         Paul
>
>


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