Structured Data An Introduction to Semantic Web “It is very hard for search engines to understand the structure and semantics of data embedded in an HTML page. To create these snippets, Google needs the help of hundreds of thousands of webmasters around the world, and by extension, content management systems like Drupal, Joomla!, and others. Specifically, Google is asking all of us to surface structured data to their crawlers by marking up our HTML with RDFa and Microformats.” -Semanticweb.com, 2010
Structured Data 1. Conventions (a tangent) 2. Microdata / Microformats (back on track) - Formats: Rich Snippets, RDFa, Microformats - Supported Content Types: Reviews, People, Products, Business, Recipes, Events, Music 3. Example: Schema.org Module 4. Testing Tool Testing Tool An Introduction to Semantic Web
Conventions & Magic An Introduction to Semantic Web
Magic Methods Click to Collapse This is how you collapse code. Now what? An Introduction to Semantic Web
Rich Snippets & MicroFormats John Smith Web Developer An Introduction to Semantic Web
Structured Data /tangent An Introduction to Semantic Web
Rich Snippets & Microformats Rich Snippets: An Introduction to Semantic Web
Rich Snippets & MicroFormats Micro Formats: Think of it as Metadata for your Element Tags. Earliest forms of Micro Formats: - Vcards - RSS Feeds “Reader” extrapolates descriptive info about the content in your tags An Introduction to Semantic Web
Rich Snippets & Microformats Rich Snippets: An Introduction to Semantic Web
Rich Snippets & MicroFormats Several Frameworks RDFa, Microdata, Schema.org RDFa example: John Smith Microdata example: John Smith An Introduction to Semantic Web
Drupal & RDFa Drupal 7 core ships with some default RDF mappings for each built in content type like blog posts, articles, forums. You can change them or specify mappings for the new content types you might create on your site with the RDF module.default RDF mappings Resource Description Framework An Introduction to Semantic Web Schema.org provides a collection of shared vocabularies webmasters can use to mark up their pages in ways that can be understood by the major search engines: Google, Microsoft, Yandex and Yahoo! You use the schema.org vocabulary, along with the microdata format, to add information to your HTML content. While the long term goal is to support a wider range of formats, the initial focus is on Microdata. Schema.org
Drupal & RDFa: Out of the Box An Introduction to Semantic Web Demo: Drupal 7 Integration
Demo: Creating a Person Content Type An Introduction to Semantic Web Schema.org
Demo: Creating a Person Content Type Demo: Schema.org Module
Demo: Google Rich Snippet Testing