About this briefing 
Title: What is Schema.org?
Authors: Phil Barker and Lorna M. Campbell
Date: 05/06/2014 (revised 06/06/2014)
URI:  http://publications.cetis.ac.uk/2014/960
Copyright:  2014 Creative Commons
License: This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
This briefing was produced by Cetis for LRMI under contract to Creative Commons.
About LRMI 
The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and jointly lead by Creative Commons and the Association of Educational Publishersnow the 501(c)(3) arm of the Association of American Publisherswith the aim of making it easier to publish, discover, and deliver high quality educational resources on the web. With input from a wide range of organisations, from both the open and commercial spheres, involved in publishing and using educational resource LRMI successfully proposed additions to schema.org (an initiative of Google, Yahoo and Bing) allowing the description of educationally important properties of resources to be marked-up in web pages in a manner that is easily understood by search engines. This enables people to create search engines that support the filtering search results based on criteria such as their match to a specific part of a curriculum, or the age of the students, or one of several other characteristics.
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About Cetis
Cetis is the Centre for Educational Technology, Interoperability and Standards. Our staff are globally recognised as leading experts on education technology innovation, interoperability and technology standards. For over a decade Cetis has provided impartial strategic, technical and pedagogical advice on educational technology and standards to funding bodies, standards agencies, government, institutions and commercial partners.
Cetis are active in the development and implementation of open standards and have been instrumental in developing and promoting the adoption of technology and standards for course advertising, open education resources, assessment, and student data management, opening new markets and creating opportunities for innovation. Our work includes a wide range of activities from representation at national standardisation bodies, facilitation of online and face-to-face events to production of a range of formal and informal publications.
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