Fwd: Schema.org contribution of sample product-description data

For reference.

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From: Watt, Bill <bwatt@ebay.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2021 at 19:36
Subject: Schema.org contribution of sample product-description data
To: danbri@google.com <danbri@google.com>
Cc: John Posavatz <jposavatz@google.com>, Rayford, Starr <srayford@ebay.com>,
Zomet, Yossi <yzomet@ebay.com>


Hi Dan,



In your Schema.org capacity, please share this (email + spreadsheet) in
public via Github, W3C email etc as appropriate.



As discussed, please find the link
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1l-HNjFcrd9HZW9m_9WMhFNSu9kZWMIYFYmk54SXCpCo/edit#gid=0
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to a spreadsheet
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sample product attributes for shoes and headphones. These should not be
considered final or definitive but please encourage the schema.org
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community to explore using this approach to describing products, i.e. this
is a contribution to the project that we hope will help shape future
definitions, especially in the product area.



The content attached is an indicative subset of the kinds of fields we are
interested in contributing to the project. We potentially have a lot more
to contribute more systematically, if there is interest. Ebay both consumes
and publishes large amounts of product data and we believe that
improvements to schema.org
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in this area would benefit the entire ecosystem, allowing standards-based
tooling, validation and descriptive definitions to be shared more widely,
improving data quality and reducing friction and complexity. We hope that
by sharing these examples, we can start a conversation about scaling up the
expressivity of schema.org
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.



From eBay’s perspective, we’d like to license the shared information under
Apache 2.0.



I’ve copied Yossi and Starr (who is our point of contact for legal) both
for visibility in the transition.



It has been a pleasure working with you folks and hopefully we run into
each other again. 😊



Thanks,



Bill