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Four years of Schema.org - Recent Progress and Looking Forward
Thursday, December 17, 2015
Posted by Ramanathan Guha, Google Fellow
In 2011,
we announced schema.org
, a new initiative from Google, Bing and Yahoo! to create and support a common vocabulary for structured data markup on web pages. Since that time,
schema.org
has been a resource for webmasters looking to add markup to their pages so that search engines can use that data to index content better and surface it in new experiences like
rich snippets
,
GMail
, and the
Google App
.
Schema.org
, which provides a growing vocabulary for describing various kinds of entity in terms of properties and relationships, has become increasingly important as the Web transitions to a multi-device, mobile-oriented world. We are now seeing schema.org being used on many millions of Web sites, defining data types and properties common across applications, platforms and products, in order to enhance the user experience by delivering the most relevant information they need, when they need it.
Schema.org in Google Rich Snippets
Schema.org in Google Knowledge Graph panels
Schema.org in Recipe carousels
In
Schema.org: Evolution of Structured Data on the Web
, an overview article published this week on ACM, we report some key schema.org adoption metrics from a sample of 10 billion pages from a combination of the Google index and Web Data Commons. In this sample, 31.3% of pages have schema.org markup, up from 22% one year ago. Structured data markup is now a core part of the modern web.
The
schema.org group at W3C
is now amongst the largest active W3C communities, serving as a hub for diverse groups exploring schemas covering diverse topics such as sports, healthcare, e-commerce, food packaging, bibliography and digital archive management. Other companies, also make use of the same data to build different applications, and as new use cases arise further schemas are integrated via
community discussion
at W3C. Each of these topics in turn have subtle inter-relationships - for example schemas for food packaging, for flight reservations, for recipes and for restaurant menus, each have different approaches to describing food restrictions and allergies. Rather than try to force a common unified approach across these domains, schema.org's evolution is pragmatic, driven by the combination of available Web data, and the likelihood of mainstream consuming applications.
Schema.org is also finding new kinds of uses. One exciting line of work is the use of schema.org marked up pages as training corpus for machine learning. John Foley, Michael Bendersky and Vanja Josifovski used schema.org data
to build a system
that can learn to recognize events that may be geographically local to a particular user. Other researchers are looking at using schema.org pages with similar markup, but in different languages, to automatically create parallel corpora for machine translation.
Four years after its launch, Schema.org is entering its next phase, with more of the vocabulary development taking place in a more distributed fashion, as extensions. As
schema.org
adoption has grown, a number groups with more specialized vocabularies have expressed interest in extending
schema.org
with their terms. Examples of this include real estate, product, finance, medical and bibliographic information. A number of extensions, for topics ranging from automobiles to product details, are already underway. In such a model, schema.org itself is just the core, providing a unifying vocabulary and congregation forum as necessary.
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