Schema.org extension for spatial data

Hi all,

Within the Geonovum testbed on spatial data on the web we have found that schema.org<http://schema.org> can help make spatial data discoverable on the web. While working with schema.org<http://schema.org> we noticed that most of the Things that are described with schema.org<http://schema.org> are modeled without a dedicated spatial focus in mind. For example the properties that describe "location" are spread over the schema, and the Things that can actually have a location are limited.


The folks (special thanks to Lieke Verhelst) in the testbed developed a proposed extension with the idea to start from scratch. Meaning: it does not propose modifications to the existing schema.org<http://schema.org> but rather seeks an alternative way to model geo information into schema.org<http://schema.org> keeping in mind the schema.org<http://schema.org> modeling objectives. We refrain from modeling specific constructs that can be used to execute a spatial analysis since 1) there are vocabularies that better support this and 2) search engines currently do not seem to be equipped with spatial indexes.


We would be interested very much to get some comments on it from this group!


See https://github.com/geo4web-testbed/geo-extension-to-schemaorg



Linda