Tagged “data”

I’ve been using schema.org for a few years now, but haven’t yet logged any notes and usage advice. Schema.org gives websites a practical, structured data approach for communicating the meaning of their content in finer detail than they could with native HTML alone. Google etc can then parse this and use it in their interfaces to offer users a richer view of your data.

Schema.org lets you pick from different types of properties for describing your content, such as book, person, place or event. Alternatively a more generic article you might use BlogPosting.

Schema.org is still current and celebrated its ten year anniversary in 2021.

One bit of troubleshooting advice worth mentioning is to validate your page using validator.schema.org. Thanks to Liam who recently pointed out a schema issue on my site, which reminded me I need to use the validator any time I make changes to the relevant markup.

An interesting BBC podcast on the history and true nature of the cloud.

We connect to the cloud, think of it as place-less, a digital “elsewhere” for storing and retrieving our data, content and memories. But far from being immaterial, the cloud is a vast, physical network made up of concrete, silicon and steel, of earthbound server farms, subterranean data centres and cables beneath the sea. It is not a publicly owned space or digital 'commons'. It is a multi-billion dollar, private infrastructure dominated by some of the world’s most powerful companies—principally Amazon, Microsoft and Google. The cloud exists within the same geography that we do: a patchwork of national and legal jurisdictions, which determine—most of the time—what it can and cannot do.