Implementing schema.org at a major academic publisher

Hi

Although so far I've been contributing to this list as an artist wanting 
to create Schema.org/VisualArtwork for use on my art website, I am also 
the Web & Application Development Manager for a major academic 
publishing company (publishing books & journals in Humanities, 
Social/Behavioural Sciences, Science, Technology, & Medicine).

I've managed to generate some initial interest in implementing 
schema.org with RDFa across the hundreds of websites we run, and now I 
need to put together a detailed proposal to get the go-ahead.

I've already included the benefits in terms of enriched search engine 
listings (particularly when using the Review and Product/Offering types) 
and marking up breadcrumb menus.

I'd like to ask the help of this list to provide some of the following:

1. Does anyone have any real-world examples of websites using the 
Schema.org/AlignmentObject type (the properties from the LRMI 
specification)?
2. Can anyone give me some examples of how implementing the above 
LRMI/Schema.org properties will benefit a website hosting learning 
resources?
3. Since our journal articles are already in Google Scholar etc, what 
would be a tangible benefit of marking them up using 
http://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle ?
4. How would our websites selling academic books/ebooks benefit if they 
were marked up with the http://schema.org/Book markup ?

Any help would be gratefully received!

Paul

Received on Thursday, 5 September 2013 17:10:44 UTC