Write Content
for Machines
or Leave Money
on the Table
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Did you know that when you see this?...
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Machines see this?...
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MACHINES??
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Machines!
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Machines!
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Machines!
…and the computer systems
that run them!
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Machines!
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A VAGUE, BUT EXCITING IDEA
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1989
March
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1989
March
This is for everyone!
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HTML Documents
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Image Documents
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Other Documents
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Web of Documents
By mid-1994,
there were
2,738 websites.
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How Search Used to Work
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How Search Used to Work
• Users of the Web would use comma separated
keywords, and would employ quotation marks, and
symbols like * and + to “trick” the search engines into
delivering the results we needed.
• Search engines would match strings and return
(many) pages of links for us to cull through.
Because… Keywords!
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Keyword-only Approach is Problematic
mole
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mole, n.
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That. Doesn’t. Scale.
http://www.internetlivestats.com/total-number-of-websites/
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THE WEB AND SEARCH
HAVE CHANGED
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How We Search Has Changed
Today…
• We ask questions and search engines answer.
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WHERE WE SEARCH HAS CHANGED
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We Search In-Page
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We Search In-Site
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We Search In-Network
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We Search In-Network
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We Search Within Search Results
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We Ask Questions Verbally
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We Ask Questions Verbally
The movie
starts at 4:00.
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SO, SEARCH IS GETTING BETTER
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The
Big
But
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Still true that when you see this...
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Machines (including search engines) see this...
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We Need to Add Some Extra Code
• to connect DATA
• to make information
interpretable by machines
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MACHINE INTERPRETATION
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Web 1.0 – Linking Documents
The Web does NOT
have “versions!!”
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Web 1.0 – Linking Documents
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Web 1.0
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Web 1.0
“I see: characters
+ formatting
+ images”
--my Computer
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Documents connected by…
URI Links!!
http://www.example.com/document.filetype
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Web 1.0 – Linking Documents
Web 2.0 – Linking People
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Linking People
• Our Profiles
• Our Likes
• Our Dislikes
• Our Interests
• Our Friends, Followers, Connections, and Communities
• Our Opinions, Thoughts, Comments, and Reviews
All connected by…
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URI Links!!
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericfranzon
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Web 2.0
“I see: characters
+ formatting
+ images”
--my Computer
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Web 2.0
“I see: characters
+ formatting
+ images”
--my Computer
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It’s hard to interpret meaning
when all you see are characters,
images, and formatting.
Context is critical.
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Web 1.0 – Linking Documents
Web 2.0 – Linking People
Web 3.0 – Linking Data
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Web 3.0 – Linking Data
Album Title
Price (in USD)
Media Format
Album
Cover
Band Name
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Web 3.0 – Linking Data
Album Title
Price (in USD)
Media Format
Album
Cover
Band Name
“I see: things
+ relationships.
This is about a
collection of
music.”
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Data connected by…
URI Links!!
http://www.example.com/document.filetype#thing
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CONTENT FOR HUMANS
CONTENT FOR MACHINES
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What a webpage without machine-
interpretable code looks like…
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What a webpage with machine-
interpretable code looks like…
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We’ve seen this dynamic before!
Human Readable
Machine Interpretable
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We’ve seen this dynamic before!
Human Readable
Machine Interpretable
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What Kind of Data Are We Adding?
• Semantic Data – communicate meaning
• Structured Data – follow a formal structure
• Linked Data – linked by URIs
Smart Data!!
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WHO’S USING THESE WEB STANDARDS?
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• Healthcare / Life Sciences
• Financial Services
• Manufacturing / Retail
• Marketing, Advertising
• SEO/SEM
• Libraries
• Archives
• Museums
• Governments
• Enterprise Software Vendors
Who’s Using Them?
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Who’s Using Them?
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Who’s Using Them?
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Who’s Using Them?
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2010
April
21
What it Looks Like
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• Activities
• Businesses
• Groups
• Organizations
• People
• Places
• Products and Entertainment
• Websites
OGP is used to Describe…
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Who’s Using Them?
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2011
June
2
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What is schema.org?
“…A collection of schemas, i.e., html tags,
that webmasters can use to markup their
pages in ways recognized by major search
providers.”
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e.g. Product Markup
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What it looks like
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Based on a sample of 12 billion web pages:
• ~5 million domains (6% of domains)
• 15 billion entities (i.e. “things”)
• 65 billion semantic statements
• 2.5 billion pages (~21% of pages)
-Reported in an August 2014 SemTechBiz Keynote
by R. V. Guha, Google Fellow
Schema.org Adoption
31% of pages (Dec. 2015)
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What is schema.org?
“…A collection of schemas, i.e., html tags,
that webmasters can use to markup their
pages in ways recognized by major search
providers.”
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Connecting THINGS not STRINGS!
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2012
May
16
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What it looks like
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e.g. TV Episode Markup
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What it looks like
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What it looks like
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What it looks like
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CAN A SMALL BUSINESS BENEFIT?
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LorisLabradors.com
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LorisLabradors.com – Before
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LorisLabradors.com – After
Map
Contact Information
Reviews
Social Media Profiles
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LorisLabradors.com – After
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PremierConstructionIL.com
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PremierConstructionIL.com – Before
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PremierConstructionIL.com – After
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PremierConstructionIL.com – Projects
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PremierConstructionIL.com – Projects
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PremierConstructionIL.com – Projects
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DATAVERSITY.net – Articles and Events
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DATAVERSITY.net – Articles and Events
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DATAVERSITY.net – Articles and Events
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PITFALLS
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Growing Pains
• Immature tools available
• Lack of understanding/misinformation
• Meaning is difficult to automate
• Vocabularies change.
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• Global companies showing as local
• Old data conflicts
• Entities mismatched to concepts
Feeling the Pain
Incorrect signals are being sent to machines.
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SCHEMA.ORG IS NOT THE ONLY ONE
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Linking Open Data Project
May, 2007
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September 2011
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August 2014
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Wikidata is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation:
a free, collaborative, multilingual, secondary
database, collecting structured data to provide
support for Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, the
other Wikimedia projects, and well beyond that.
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Data from these trusted sources
is available for you
to use in your applications TODAY.
Data you can LINK to.
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Semantic Data that is machine READABLE.
…and machine INTERPRETABLE!
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FUTURE PROOFING
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2009
Feb
18
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Consuming the Data
2009
Feb
18
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Consuming the Data
2012
May
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Questions?
Operators are standing by.
THANK YOU!
eric@smartdataseo.com
@EricAxel
http://linkedin.com/in/ericfranzon
Are you
being seen
in the Web?
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