Re: CurrencyConversionService and ExchangeRateSpecification markups?

Hi all:
FYI:

In the course of [1] and [2], we developed a small ontology for currency conversion data, see

    https://www.stalsoft.com/ontologies/xro/ns#

Best wishes
Martin Hepp

[1] http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1056/salad2013-6.pdf
[2] http://www.currency2currency.org/, currently down (likely due to excessive usage / over quota; tbc)

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> On 3. Jun 2020, at 13:48, Pauline S <pauline@changenow.io> wrote:
> 
> Hey guys,
> 
> I hope this email finds you well. 
> I have a question about the structured data markups for currency exchanges, mainly CurrencyConversionService and ExchangeRateSpecification.
> I do marketing for a cryptocurrency exchange service and would like to add these two bits to our pages. 
> However, I have a question whether Google actually cares that this data is there or not.
> Right now, https://schema.org/ExchangeRateSpecification is pending for community review and https://schema.org/CurrencyConversionService is released, but neither of those is listed on https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/search-gallery. 
> So my question is, is there a point in adding these to our pages right now? If yes, are there any detailed specs on how to mark these up properly?
> 
> Another point of interest is that if you google "btc to usd" there is a snippet on the front page that does indeed display the exchange rate for Coinbase, provided by Morningstar, which means that this kind of structured data DOES work at some point.
> 
> Thank you so much for reading this! I'm sorry if the questions are irrelevant - SEO is not my strong suit. 
> 
> Best regards,
> Pauline Shangett
> Chief Marketing Officer
> ChangeNOW.io
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Received on Wednesday, 3 June 2020 22:11:13 UTC