Re: Describing NFTs with schema.org

Hi Hugh,

Regarding the main NFT standard for the Ethereum blockchain, ERC-721, its
metadata is based on a title, a type and three properties about the asset
with the NFT represents. These properties are:

   - “name”: identifies the asset to which this NFT represents.
   - “description”: describes the asset to which this NFT represents.
   - “image”: a URI pointing to a resource with mime type image/*
   representing the asset to which this NFT represents.

They are well aligned with schema.org, but limited to this closed set.

There is also the InterNFT proposal, https://internft.org,  a community-led
initiative to develop an NFT standard that can work across different
blockchains. In this case, the idea is to associate JSON-LD metadata to the
NFT. This way, the full potential of semantic metadata can be used to
better describe the associated asset.

Best regards,

Roberto García
Associate Professor
Universitat de Lleida
Jaume II, 69
25001 Lleida, Spain
Tel. +34 973 702 742
http://rhizomik.net/~roberto


On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 3:53 PM Hugh Paterson III <sil.linguist@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Does anyone know of any examples of schema.org being used to describe
> NFTs? I recall something on a mailing list or an issue several months ago
> but I can't seem to find it now. By NFTs I mean Non-fungible token. see:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-fungible_token
>
> all the best,
> - Hugh
>