Re: schema.org v1.9 release: Periodical, workExample, seller/provider and updated terms of service

Great news! Thanks to all involved.

Cheers,
Niklas


On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 8:09 AM, Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com> wrote:

> Version 1.9 of schema.org has just been posted. See
> http://schema.org/docs/releases.html#v1.9 for details, and (as usual)
> Github [1] for the exact details.
>
> This version introduces changes proposed by the Bib Extend group for
> describing periodicals, alongside a 'work to work' property,
> 'workExample' (and an inverse); also a new convenience inverse
> property for 'isPartOf' called 'hasPart'. Many many thanks to all who
> contributed to those discussions, here and on the Bib Extend group's
> list. In particular thanks to Richard Wallis for chairing it all
> through to a rough consensus, and to Dan Scott for having an
> implementation ready to deploy on Github.
>
> The 1.9 update also addresses the recently discussed Seller/Provider
> issue, see the releases overview document for background links and
> details on the various changes this involves.
>
> Aside from vocabulary changes, this update also improves the
> presentation of 'supercededBy' metadata on the site, making it
> navigable from per-term pages and allowing for a property to supercede
> multiple earlier properties.
>
> We have also updated the terms of service document -
> http://schema.org/docs/terms.html - noting that Yandex is now a
> schema.org Sponsor and adopting the patent terms used by W3C.
>
> Finally, the errors in the RDF a dump are fixed, and we have a QA test
> to help ensure that such glitches don't occur again.[3]
>
> Thanks everyone :)
>
> Dan, for schema.org.
>
> [1] https://github.com/rvguha/schemaorg/commits/master
> [2] http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/
> [3]
> https://github.com/rvguha/schemaorg/blob/master/tests/test_graphs.py#L64
>  http://schema.org/docs/schema_org_rdfa.html
>  http://www.w3.org/2012/pyRdfa/#distill_by_uri
>
>