- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2021 19:36:13 +0100
- To: "schema.org Mailing List" <public-schemaorg@w3.org>
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In the spirit of schema.org's founding commitment to making structured data markup both easy and expressive, our 10th anniversary is a good time to think about how to be more disciplined about keeping our growing collection of schemas usable. Here's a quick experiment, oriented in particular to those of you who work with schema.org markup on a regular basis. What are your biggest specific schema frustrations, for now (this thread) focussing on specific pieces of schema.org's definitions, examples and documentation that you feel could be improved. Generally things work better when there are also positive suggestions for specific improvements, but for the sake of this exercise let's just find out first where the frustrations are. The focus for this exercise is not on adding new stuff (or on why certain ideas for new stuff haven't been prioritized, implemented, or discussed). Rather on the existing schemas already published at Schema.org. This distinction isn't absolute, since any proposal to add new detail can be couched in terms of the weak expressivity of existing definitions. For today, please stick to things that are downright confusing, ambiguous, inadequately defined etc. We can come to the other stuff separately. For those of you who are set up to use Github (and that's often where the action is), there's a ticket open there <https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/2893 >. But if you prefer email, please just reply in this thread. The only structure I would encourage is to please do your best to find existing Github issue numbers / URLs. We have 592 open issues at https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues and the goal here is to help focus attention on those issues where improvements will have the most impact. So - please respond with Github issue URLs here or in the tracking issue I set up at https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/2893 Dan p.s. I am a little wary encouraging people to vent frustrations online; please keep things calm and friendly, even if your frustrations are real and painful
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