Re: CurrencyConversionService and ExchangeRateSpecification markups?

Hi Pauline,

The ExchangeRateSpecification
<https://schema.org/ExchangeRateSpecification> term
you correctly identify is one of many that are in the pending
<https://schema.org/docs/pending.home.html> section of the Schema.org
vocabulary.

Somewhat counterintuitively a term's presence in the pending section is not
a discorragement to its use in markup. It is more the opposite, an
encouragement to use to prove the usefulness of the term(s) as expected by
those that proposed it.

It has been acknowledged that the process for moving term definitions from
pending into the core areas of the vocabulary, and potentially weeding out
less successfully adopted, has not taken off fully yet.  Nevertheless you
will find many very well used terms in the pending section.   The more
sites that use pending terms, the more successful those terms will be, and
the more likely it will be that data consumers such as search engines will
take notice of data containing them.

As to examples of how to mark up an ExchangeRateSpecification, I would take
your lead from the examples
<https://schema.org/ExchangeRateSpecification#examples> on the schema.org
page.
eg.

{
    "@context": "http://schema.org",
    "@type": "ExchangeRateSpecification",
    "currency":"BTC",
    "currentExchangeRate":[
        {
            "@type": "UnitPriceSpecification",
            "price": "9548.06",
            "priceCurrency": "USD"
        },
        {
            "@type": "UnitPriceSpecification",
            "price": "8523.21",
            "priceCurrency": "EUR"
        }
    ]
}


~Richard

Richard Wallis
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On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 at 11:23, Pauline S <pauline@changenow.io> wrote:

> Hi Martin,
>
> Thank you so much! Taking this in for research.
>
> *Best regards,*
> *Pauline Shangett*
>
> *Chief Marketing Officer*
> *ChangeNOW.io*
> *______________________*
>
> *Telegram: t.me/deepmoist <http://t.me/deepmoist>*
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 1:10 AM Martin Hepp <mfhepp@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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)
>>
>> -----------------------------------
>> martin hepp  http://www.heppnetz.de <http://www.heppnetz.de/>
>> mfhepp@gmail.com <mailto:mfhepp@gmail.com>
>> @mfhepp
>>
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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
>> > ______________________
>> > Telegram: t.me/deepmoist
>> >
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