Re: SKOS for schema.org proposal for discussion

The Google Knowledge Graph is well aware of LoC's IDs and the Concept of
"Sustainable Agriculture".  You just do not see the results of the efforts
on any Google Search Results page YET.  But it is coming...patience.

Bernard, you can get a sense of what Google's Knowledge Graph "knows" and
will eventually show about that particular concept by looking at the JSON
output from the graph for that LoC ID of sh87004216 here:
https://www.googleapis.com/freebase/v1/search?query=sh87004216&filter(all%20type:/type/object/key)&indent=true&output=((all%20all))

the (all all) outputs everything the Knowledge Graph knows outputting 2 ply
for the results.. if you only want 1 ply... then just change the
output=(all)

If you wanted to see only the Broader's and their Peer_of relationships...
then like this output=((narrower_than peer_of))  like so:
https://www.googleapis.com/freebase/v1/search?query=sh87004216&filter(all%20type:/type/object/key)&indent=true&output=((narrower_than%20peer_of))

(full docs for the API are here if you want to play more:
https://developers.google.com/freebase/ )

What your seeing is all gooble-gook, in JSON formating when you click on
those links, but ....

Google is in the midst of "soonish" providing faceting and sub-searching
tools to help visualize results with Broader / Narrower / Related / etc...
based on SKOS Concepts.  I happen to be one of the folks involved in
populating the Graph itself and linking SKOS Concepts.



On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Aaron Bradley <aaranged@gmail.com> wrote:

> Bernard, to provide a general answer to both of your questions
> parenthetically prefaced "from a SEO point of view," I've yet to see any
> evidence that any search engine has ever used any external URI provided in
> schema.org markup in order to produce a rich snippet, change the ranking
> order of web pages or return a resource in the SERPs based solely on such a
> reference.
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> This doesn't mean that the search engines *aren't* ingesting and using
> these data, only that there's no observed evidence that they're doing so.
>
> (I don't know whether Martin Hepp or anyone else has observed a
> demonstrable impact in the SERPs as a result of referencing
> productontology.org URIs via additionalType - I'd certainly be interested
> in hearing of such cases if they exist!)
>
> But this lack of evidence is not unimportant from an SEO practitioner's
> point of view, because as a result there's no incentive to employ such
> mechanisms:  the demonstrated "added value" is zero.
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> On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Bernard Vatant <
> bernard.vatant@mondeca.com> wrote:
>
>> Let me make my point differently.
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>> Maybe this is obvious for all users of schema.org, please point me to
>> the relevant resources if it's the case.
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>> I want to say that my content (page/section) is about "Sustainable
>> agriculture".
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>> I have a skos:Concept for this, defined in a good reference vocabulary
>> http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87004216
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>> I can already use in the current state of affairs, the schema.org/aboutproperty to mark my page with this URI, right?
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>> Q1. What is the current added value (from a SEO point of view) to mark
>> with this URI vs marking with the string "Sustainable agriculture"? And
>> particularly what is the added value of having this URI being defined as a
>> skos:Concept in a most authoritative Concept Scheme (LCSH), instead of any
>> other URI such as
>> http://dbpedia.org/page/Sustainable_agriculture
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>> http://www.actu-environnement.com/ae/dictionnaire_environnement/definition/agriculture_durable.php4
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>> Q2. What would be the added value (always from a SEO point of view) to
>> add a schema.org type (whatever its name) to this URI indicating in the
>> markup that this URI is indeed a skos:Concept belonging to a
>> skos:ConceptScheme, namely LCSH (which you can discover by dereferencing
>> the URI anyway, but do search engines follow their nose in the markup)?
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>> (Thinking about it I have the same question for the use of any reference
>> URI, be it a skos:Concept or not. What do you gain if any by using
>> http://id.insee.fr/geo/departement/05 instead of the string
>> "Hautes-Alpes" in a schema.org/Place description?)
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>> 2013/10/8 Vicki Tardif Holland <vtardif@google.com>
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>>> On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I actually read the discussion differently. It's not so much that
>>>> people want to express topics in the KOS sense, but that they want to refer
>>>> to controlled lists within their data, and SKOS covers that. SKOS gives you
>>>> a way to define a finite list with a few useful relationships. I think it's
>>>> the mechanism of SKOS that people are looking for, more than the KOS value.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I had the same interpretation.
>>>
>>> I know that controlled vocabularies are sometimes seen as a nuisance
>>> outside of the library realm, but they are useful in the cases where
>>> programmers want an enumeration. SKOS is even better than a flat
>>> enumeration, because the vocabulary can have a hierarchy, allowing for
>>> inheritance.
>>>
>>> As an example, we have been working through a proposal to support civic
>>> services in schema.org. One of the properties of a service is
>>> "serviceType". It would be nice to be able to encourage people to use
>>> something like openelegibility.org's taxonomy so that we have some hope
>>> of sorting out the services automatically.
>>>
>>> - Vicki
>>>
>>>
>>> Vicki Tardif Holland | Ontologist | vtardif@google.com
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