8 Jul 2012 mhausenblas   » (Journeyer)

Schema.org + WebIntents = Awesomeness

Imagine you search for a camera, say a Canon EOS 60D, and in addition to the usual search results you’re as well offered a choice of actions you can perform on it, for example share the result with a friend, write a review for the item or, why not directly buy it?

Enhancing SERP with actions

Sounds far fetched? Not at all. In fact, all the necessary components are available and deployed. With Schema.org we have a way to describe the things we publish on our Web pages, such as books or cameras and with WebIntents we have a technology at hand that allows us to interact with these things in a flexible way.

Here are some starting points in case you want to dive into WebIntents a bit:

PS: I started to develop a proof of concept for mapping Schema.org terms to WebIntents and will report on the progress, here. Stay tuned!


Filed under: Experiment, Idea, Linked Data, W3C

Syndicated 2012-07-08 18:21:19 from Web of Data

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