Code.gov source code catalog/ model: Schema.org/SoftwareSourceCode

[rafael5]

Recommendation: Schema.org for source code metadata model

Schema.org The Schema.org is the web data model used by the largest web search engines (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Bing, etc.) to index and search all structured data on the web. Using schema.org will thus maximize the discoverability of all software artifacts published on the web. See: https://schema.org

Specifically for code.gov source code

• https://schema.org/SoftwareSourceCode

Background

Federal agencies and knowledge organizations such as IBM, Google (Knowledge Graphs) and National Library of Congress have adopted the W3C Linked Data standard (RDF) as their metadata standard to provide master data management for all their large data resources, making them compliant with all web search engines and technologies. VA, for example, is projecting all of its data assets using Schema.org JSON-LD to surface all 35 years of its data:

http://vistadataproject.info

JSON-LD. This is the W3C Linked Data standard for structured data on the web, also known as the Resource Description Framework (RDF). The JSON-LD serialization of RDF is the most web-programmer friendly form of RDF, and supplements the JSON standard with the "@ context" attribute. See:

• http://json-ld.org/
• https://developers.google.com/schemas/formats/json-ld

[mattbailey0]

Closing this as duplicative of #24