Re: Schema.org extensions versus core

Dear Guha:
Thanks for this important guideline! One question - could you please clarify what you mean with:

> 2. It must have at least 10m weekly users. Preferably 100m

Does this refer to the number of times a type or facet is relevant for a search engine query? Or the total number of human visitors to the Web sites that implement the conceptual elements?

Martin



> On 06 May 2015, at 03:59, Guha <guha@google.com> wrote:
> 
> There has been a request to clarify when something should go into an extension versus when something should go into the core. Here is a first stab at clarifying that.
> 
> For something to be in the core, the following conditions must be satisfied:
> 
> 1. There must be at least a 1000 sites that will use it. Preferably 10,000+
> 2. It must have at least 10m weekly users. Preferably 100m
> 3. The vocabulary must be relatively compact. Less than 20 terms.
> 
> Of course, these are not hard constraints. We also recognize that vocabularies evolve and more usage than planned might happen. We expect terms or entire vocabularies to move from the extensions to core and vice versa.
> 
> This is a start of the discussion.
> 
> guha
> 


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