I am very new to semantic web technologies and schema.org in particular, but have become heavily invested in this field through my studies in Computer Science.
I am unsure if this is the correct place to even raise these questions, so please redirect me if I should rather ask them elsewhere. (I was unable to find answers to these questions on the schema.org website).
When third-parties develop external extensions of schema.org, are there any technical standards these ontologies/vocabularies should comply with?
Is there a specific process these third-parties should follow to be recognised as an official external extension of schema.org and whom should they consult to start this process? The community group or the steering group or a specific person?
Are there any specific terms of use or copyright permissions required when a third-party wants to extend schema.org in this way?
Also, am I correct in understanding that "hosted extensions" have basically been replaced by the --pending-- label or will some more "hosted extensions" (such as bib) be included in the schema.org namespace in the future?
I am very new to semantic web technologies and schema.org in particular, but have become heavily invested in this field through my studies in Computer Science. I am unsure if this is the correct place to even raise these questions, so please redirect me if I should rather ask them elsewhere. (I was unable to find answers to these questions on the schema.org website).
When third-parties develop external extensions of schema.org, are there any technical standards these ontologies/vocabularies should comply with?
Is there a specific process these third-parties should follow to be recognised as an official external extension of schema.org and whom should they consult to start this process? The community group or the steering group or a specific person? Are there any specific terms of use or copyright permissions required when a third-party wants to extend schema.org in this way?
Also, am I correct in understanding that "hosted extensions" have basically been replaced by the --pending-- label or will some more "hosted extensions" (such as bib) be included in the schema.org namespace in the future?
Thanks Jaco