About Schema.orgSchema.org is a collaborative, community activity with a mission to create, maintain, and promote schemas for structured data on the Internet.Schema.orgSO2_e2b3292c-1472-11e6-98a8-35cef8713b8cSchema.org is a collaborative, community activity ... Schema.org is organized via two groups: a small Steering Group responsible for high level oversight of the project (including approval of new releases), and a larger Community Group which handles the day to day activity of schema evolution, discussion and integration. Schema.org's Community Group prepares releases for the approval of the Steering Group.Schema.org SponsorsSchema.org is sponsored by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Yandex. GoogleMicrosoftYahooYandexWeb CommunityIn addition to people from the sponsoring companies (Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Yandex), there is substantial participation by the larger Web community, through public mailing lists such as public-vocabs@w3.org and through GitHub...W3C Schema.org Community GroupSince April 2015, the W3C Schema.org Community Group is the main forum for schema collaboration, and provides the public-schemaorg@w3.org mailing list for discussions. Schema.org issues are tracked on GitHub... The Schema.org Community Group is chaired by Dan Brickley, who acts in this capacity on behalf of the schema.org project rather than his employer, Google. It is open to any interested parties who have agreed to the W3C Community Contributor License Agreement. The role of the Community Group is to propose, discuss, prepare and review changes to schema.org, for final review and publication by the Steering Group. The Community Group also serves as a hub for discussion with other related communities, at W3C and elsewhere. The schema.org GitHub repository is considered a tool of the Community Group, and is currently the main focus for community discussion. In other words, the W3C schema.org Community Group is the main forum for the project - https://www.w3.org/community/schemaorg/. It is Github-based in the sense that its GitHub repository - https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/ ... * is where all the materials are - examples, schemas, documentation, software * is where the project community develop more complex proposals as branches * holds the issue tracker where changes are discussed * issues #1 (planning), #2 (vocab changes) and #3 (tooling/infrastructure) provide some views into to the various fine-grained issues, as do the labels we attach e.g. cleanup.Dan BrickleyChair, Schema.org Community GroupSchema.org Steering GroupThe day to day operations of Schema.org, including decisions regarding the schema, are handled by a steering group, which includes representatives of the sponsor companies, a representative of the W3C and a small number of individuals who have contributed substantially to Schema.org. Discussions of the steering group are public... The Schema.org Steering Group is chaired by R.V. Guha, who does not represent his employer Google in this capacity. The regular Steering Group participants from the search engines are Peter Mika from Yahoo; Alex Shubin, Yuliya Tikhokhod and Charles Nevile from Yandex; Shankar Natarajan, Tom Marsh and Steve Macbeth from Microsoft; and Vicki Tardif Holand and Dan Brickley from Google. In April 2015 the Steering Group unanimously agreed to expand its membership to include Stéphane Corlosquet and Martin Hepp, and to offer a seat to a representative from W3C. The Steering Group has a mailing list - mostly used for scheduling periodic phone/skype/etc calls, whose notes are posted to public GitHub and linked from issue #1 in the project's issue tracker.R.V. GuhaSteering Group ChairPeter MikaSteering Group Participant -- from YahooAlex ShubinSteering Group Participant -- from YandexYuliya TikhokhodSteering Group Participant -- from YandexCharles NevileSteering Group Participant -- from YandexShankar NatarajanSteering Group Participant -- from MicrosoftTom MarshSteering Group Participant -- from MicrosoftSteve MacbethSteering Group Participant -- from MicrosoftVicki Tardif HolandSteering Group Participant -- from GoogleDan BrickleySteering Group Participant -- from GoogleStéphane Corlosquet Steering Group ParticipantMartin HeppSteering Group ParticipantSchema.org ContributersA number of people have made substantial contributions to Schema.org over the years. These include [the following]... Many, many other individuals have contributed to schema.org discussions, proposals and schemas through W3C lists, Github and elsewhere, see the releases page for more details. We are sorry that we haven't managed to acknowledge everyone individually here, but we are grateful for the energy, insight and collaboration that you have all shared.Dan Brickleyruns the daily operations for schema.org. He is on the steering group and Google's representative.Stéphane Corlosquetwas responsible for the integration of schema.org into Drupal and has been an active contributor via GitHub and serves on the steering group.Jason Douglascoordinates the integration of schema.org into Google's search products.R.V.Guhainitiated schema.org and is one of its co-founders. He currently heads the steering group.Sam Gotoof Google did much of the work being schema.org's Actions vocabulary.Vicki Tardif Hollandof Google has worked on vocabularies for a lot of major topics on Schema.org. Together with Dan Brickley, she serves on the steering group and takes care of much of the day to day running of schema.org.Martin Heppauthor of GoodRelations, has worked closely with the community to integrate GoodRelations into schema.org. He serves on the steering group.Charlie Jiangwas the representative from Microsoft from 2011 to 2013.Jason Johnsonwas the representative from Microsoft from 2013 to 2014 and contributed to the Actions and Sports vocabularies.Steve Macbethis one of the co-founders of schema.org and serves as Microsoft's executive sponsor.Peter Mikais Yahoo's current representative and have been involved in the schema.org project since 2011.Gaurav Mishracontributed to earlier versions of schema.org as Yahoo's representative until 2013.Scott PetersonScott Peterson (Google), David Rudin (Microsoft) and Erin Simon (Google) have taken care of the legal documents.David Rudin(Microsoft)Erin Simon(Google)Alex Shubinhas led Yandex's involvement in schema.org since 2011.Yuliya Tikhokhodcontributed to Yandex's work on schemas, particularly those for describing audiences and VideoGames.Egor AntonovEgor Antonov, Vladimir Gorovoy and Mikhail Senin of Yandex contributed to the schemas for audiences and for Actions.Vladimir GorovoyMikhail SeninCharles Nevileof Yandex contributed to the content accessibility work, and to liaison with W3C's Web Apps group.Bill CoughranBill Coughran and Alan Eustace played a big role in creating schema.org.Alan EustaceGreg Grossmeier Greg Grossmeier (while at Creative Commons), Phil Barker and many others worked on LRMI.Phil BarkerEvan SandhausEvan Sandhaus, Andreas Gebhard and Stuart Myles led Schema.org's first partnership, working on rNews with the IPTC.Andreas GebhardStuart MylesAneesh ChopraAneesh Chopra, as Whitehouse CTO helped create and promote the Job Postings vocabulary.Ralph SwickRalph Swick and Vint Cerf helped establish the relations between Schema.org and the W3C.Vint CerfW3C Community GroupsNote also that other W3C Community Groups exist that are focussed partially or entirely on schema.org improvements, e.g. health and medicine, sports, archives, libraries and bibliography, autos... ...these groups have their own ways of working, and coordinate via the main Schema.org Community Group and its Github repository. Webmasters and developers ... get the maximum benefit for their efforts._e2b32af8-1472-11e6-98a8-35cef8713b8cTo create, maintain, and promote schemas for structured data on the Internet._e2b32bd4-1472-11e6-98a8-35cef8713b8cOpennessThe vocabularies are developed by an open community process, using the public-schemaorg@w3.org mailing list and through GitHub.FlexibilitySchema.org vocabulary can be used with many different encodings, including RDFa, Microdata and JSON-LD.RelationshipsThese vocabularies cover entities, relationships between entities and actions, and can easily be extended through a well-documented extension model.UsageOver 10 million sites use Schema.org to markup their web pages and email messages.ExtensibilityMany applications from Google, Microsoft, Pinterest, Yandex and others already use these vocabularies to power rich, extensible experiences.Vocabularies & SchemasMake it easier for webmasters and developers to decide on a schema._e2b32ca6-1472-11e6-98a8-35cef8713b8cWebmastersDevelopersA shared vocabulary makes it easier for webmasters and developers to decide on a schema and get the maximum benefit for their efforts. It is in this spirit that the sponsors, together with the larger community have come together, to provide a shared collection of schemas._e2b32d78-1472-11e6-98a8-35cef8713b8c2016-05-07http://schema.org/docs/about.htmlOwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net