Which schema.org type should be used for a forum? [closed]

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7227202

  •  15-01-2021
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Domanda

Neither Article or Blog seems to fit for a forum with topics and discussions. Or is Article considered for any generic post or comment?

È stato utile?

Soluzione

I use Article for the topics and ItemList for the list of topics in forum according to this message.

Altri suggerimenti

https://schema.org/DiscussionForumPosting seems to be the recommended solution from schema.org where they say it's for:

A posting to a discussion forum.

They even provide a JSON_LD sample:

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context":"http://schema.org",
  "@type":"DiscussionForumPosting",
  "@id":"http://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/2gypch/is_schemaorg_still_a_thing/"
  "headline":"Is Schema.org still a thing?",
  "author": {
    "@type": "Person",
    "name": "haecceity123"
  },
  "interactionStatistic": {
    "@type": "InteractionCounter",
    "interactionType": "http://schema.org/CommentAction",
    "userInteractionCount": 25
  },
}

JSON-LD is the recommended solution for schema so I am looking for some real world examples. On the Schema website it gives a description for DiscussionForumPosting: A posting to a discussion forum.

This seems to indicate that each post in a topic should have structured data (which makes sense to me).

The example they give with the interactionStatistic property seems to indicate this is for the First forum post in a topic.

Forums are made up of categories (usually) and categories are made up of topics, and topics have 1 or more form posts each.

With DiscussionForumPosting how do we handle topics with multiple posts. Large Forum topics can have many pages and 100 plus posts

Stackoverflow itself uses QAPage for the HTML element, Question for question element Answer for Answer elements. Example:

<html itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/QAPage">
    ...
    <div itemprop="mainEntity" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Question">
        <h1 itemprop="name"><a href="...">The title of question</a></h1>
        <div role="main" aria-label="Question and answers">

             <div class="question">
                 <div itemprop="text">
                     The text of question 
                 </div>
                 <div>
                     Answers Count: <span itemprop="answerCount">2</span>
                 </div>
             </div>

             <div class="answers">
                 <div itemprop="acceptedAnswer" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Answer">
                     <div itemprop="text">
                         The text of answer
                     </div>
                 </div>
                 <div itemprop="suggestedAnswer" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Answer">
                     <div itemprop="text">
                         The text of answer
                     </div>
                 </div>
             </div>
         </div>
     </div>
     ...
</html>

For more detail, you can inspect the source of available forums on the internet. And also, You can validate your structured data by Structured data testing tool.

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