semantic-web

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
• concept
• make information in the internet available as structured & machine-readable data
• Schema.org publishes schemas for a wide array of data
• this makes it possible to publish data following these schemas
• and applications to consume that data if it’s valid
• structured data can be embedded right into normal HTML
  • e.g. Microdata
  • similar to older approaches such as RDFa
  • with the goal of being simpler
• or can be encoded standalone, e.g. as JSON-LD
• e.g. I use the recipe schema encoded as Microdata for the recipes on my website
• this makes it possible to import recipes into applications such as Tandoor