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Microdata schema for historical data.
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Version and status #39

Open coret opened 11 years ago

coret commented 11 years ago

What is the status of the historical-data scheme? Is it still work in progess, like a version 0.1? Or is it "stable" and can it be used in production? And, are there any search engine crawlers who are using these microformat schemes?

I've implemented the first "version" of historical-data (when it had a HistoricalPerson) on www.genealogieonline.nl (which host info about 17 million historical persons) and now I'm not sure if I should implement the current version (ie. rewrite to Person) or wait for a while... Is there a roadmap?

RobertGardner commented 11 years ago

It has been submitted to schema.org and accepted, but they have not yet updated their documentation to reflect this. You can consider it stable, though there is a small chance something will change in the process of it getting fully documented. Yes, there are search engine crawlers that use them and your site will benefit from supporting them.

I suggest you go ahead and convert, it should be fairly simple to do. However, if you want, you can wait for schema.org to update with it. Sorry for not publishing a roadmap, we've been busy on other things (including summer vacations! :).

Robert

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 7:19 AM, Bob Coret notifications@github.com wrote:

What is the status of the historical-data scheme? Is it still work in progess, like a version 0.1? Or is it "stable" and can it be used in production? And, are there any search engine crawlers who are using these microformat schemes?

I've implemented the first "version" of historical-data (when it had a HistoricalPerson) on www.genealogieonline.nl (which host info about 17 million historical persons) and now I'm not sure if I should implement the current version (ie. rewrite to Person) or wait for a while... Is there a roadmap?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/historical-data/schema/issues/39.

coret commented 11 years ago

Sounds great!

Which crawlers already use the historical-data schema?

Bob

RobertGardner commented 11 years ago

I only know what Google is doing, and it recognizes and uses all schema.orgmarkup, including historical-data. I can't provide specifics beyond the vague statement that your site will benefit from supporting the schema, and hopefully the benefits will grow over time.

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Bob Coret notifications@github.comwrote:

Sounds great!

Which crawlers already use the historical-data schema?

Bob

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/historical-data/schema/issues/39#issuecomment-7765184.

EssyGreen commented 11 years ago

I only know what Google is doing, and it recognizes and uses all schema.orgmarkup, including historical-data.

That's good news! But how do we know which version they are running with at any moment in time?

It feels a bit like having to take a bet on which horse will win at the moment - microdata, RDF, GEDCOM-X plus others are all attempting to come up with effectively the same thing (albeit from different angles).

coret commented 11 years ago

When you use Google's Rich Snippets Testing Tool you see that the proposed changes to schema.org by historical-data.org in regard to person aren't recognized yet, for example see http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.genealogieonline.nl%2Fgenealogie-coret%2FI000163.php

Schema.org/historical-data.org microdata is in my opinion purely to 'educate' webcrawlers.