Re: Discussion topic: How to improve understanding and application of schema.org

Hi Michael !

So in Question 1:
I think we can improve the documentation.  More examples would help, and
some users and consumers of Schema.org just turn to this
https://stackoverflow.com/search?tab=newest&q=schema.org  Dan and I chatted
after your post and we're going to try to setup a Slack channel for more
interactive help among users/consumers.  Look for that Slack channel
perhaps next week.  But back to documentation...it would be helpful to know
where !  We need specifics here, to fix it, and that likely can come from
folks that did not understand something and then "got it", and having them
point out those specific areas that are troubling.  So, you can open an
issue on Github for anything that is unclear or causes you confusion.  You
can add a link to an existing document you have floating online, or you can
just write up your concerns in the Github issue itself.  I'd suggest a
collaborative web document online, so that others can contribute to it and
just mention it in your Github issue.

So in Question 2:
Cross domain applicability is something that users/consumers and machines
would need to assist with, because it a complete endeavor in its own right
and you also need to be a domain expert in whatever domains.  So this will
never happen within Schema.org itself.  Instead,  You can already be take
advantage of existing mapped Types and Properties and using Linked Data
further.  The mapping is performed in Wikidata
<https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/280#issuecomment-397466890>.
And it is there and with other tools and programming that you can do
comparisons of Classes of Types, and Types of Properties, etc.   For any
kind of comparisons of Schema.org Types and Properties, you can ask for
advanced help on the Wikidata mailing lists where others have in the past
assisted with putting together even whole web applications to surface
comparison data with other vocabularies, just not Schema.org however.  But
I encourage you to ask there, if you do not know how to build something
like that yourself.

-Thad