Schema.org

Shared vocabulary for structured data in web pages, launched in 2011 by Bing, Google and Yahoo, with Yandex joining later that year.

See the vocabulary ↗ schema.org On GitHub ↗

Part of threads One vocabulary or many settles; Ontology against folksonomy proposes; Who sets the standard? settles; Why would anyone add structure? settles

builds on

• GoodRelations standard 2008 (2012) [src]
• HTML microdata standard 2009 [src]
  Launched with microdata as its markup format, while still accepting RDFa and microformats.
• RDF Schema standard 2004 [src]

created by

• Google organization 1998 [src]
  with Microsoft, Yahoo and Yandex
• R.V. Guha person b. 1965 [src]

contributors

• Dan Brickley person [src]

subject of

• Schema.org: Evolution of Structured Data on the Web writing 2016 [src]

built upon by

• Embedded structured data concept [src]
• Google Dataset Search project 2018 [src]
• GS1 Web Vocabulary standard [src]