Re: Multi-typed Entities in schema.org; was: Re: makesOffer should accept Service

On 01/08/2014 08:01 AM, Martin Hepp wrote:
> Dear Jarno, Karen, all:
>
> I think I did not say this explicit: From a conceptual level, I strongly recommend to use a "multi-type" approach that combines two or more schema.org types for such cases. Unfortunately, the current support at the search engine level for multi-typed entities is not flawless.
>
> What this means is that:
>
> 1. The given examples and direction are generally correct.
> 2. They may not work immediately in current client projects.
> 3. Google and the other sponsors of schema.org should make fixing support for multi-typed entities in Microdata, RDFa, and JSON-LD a priority, both in validators and operational systems.
> 4. We should rather wait for #3 instead of blowing up schema.org with conceptual elements for a tentative fix. After all, the cost of deprecating or changing elements in schema.org is high in terms of confusion.
How can we contribute to #3? Maybe we could collaboratively create a 
page on our wiki listing very particular examples with.

* markup in JSON-LD, RDFa and Microdata
* comments on our motivation and expectations in using those particular 
structures
* matrix with ranking of current support among tools which try to 
support schema.org

Having that could make process of fixing those bugs more straight 
forward for people developing those tools!

Received on Wednesday, 8 January 2014 09:48:28 UTC