Support for SocialMediaPosting schema

[nostr-protocol]

Support for SocialMediaPosting schema

[melvincarvalho]

I think at one time these things were called rich snippets. So one possibility would be to have a kind and a NIP for all types of rich snippets. There's a whole world of possibilities. Then clients supporting rich snippets would try and render them. This might be a challenge in itself. Which types SHOULD a client support?

Open question whether we want to focus on certain types within schema.org or try and import the whole thing. Trade offs of complexity and utility for both approaches.

[melvincarvalho]

Hi @ottman, thanks for raising this.

Do you have an idea of the requirement here.

In schema.org https://schema.org/SocialMediaPosting is a type which goes in a some markup, typically a JSON(-LD) snippet. The example from the page is:

{
  "@context":"https://schema.org",
  "@type":"SocialMediaPosting",
  "@id":"https://www.pinterest.com/pin/201887995769400347/",
  "datePublished":"2014-03-04",
  "author":{
    "@type":"Person",
    "name":"Ryan Sammy",
    "url":"https://www.pinterest.com/ryansammy/"
  },
  "headline":"Leaked new BMW 2 series (m235i)",
  "sharedContent":{
    "@type":"WebPage",
    "headline":"Leaked new BMW 2 series (m235i) ahead of oct 25 reveal",
    "url":"http://www.reddit.com/r/BMW/comments/1oyh6j/leaked_new_bmw_2_series_m235i_ahead_of_oct_25/",
    "author":{
      "@type":"Person",
      "name":"threal135i"
    }
  }
}

As you can see the important bit here is:

  "@type":"SocialMediaPosting",

But there's the context and envelope that has other terms such as headline author etc. schema.org is a bit strange in places, but has a large network effect, used mainly for SEO.

The content field in nostr is open ended. So there's not a content-type or mime-type associated with it, by default. It could be normal text, it could be JSON (some nips do this), and it can have a numerical kind

So could the use case be expanded upon a bit. How would a SocialMediaPosting be consumed, would it need a new kind or NIP. I think if it's sent as a normal text note, it's going to confuse existing clients a bit, which will not be used to the full markup.

Is it just this type or others. I've recently been looking at https://schema.org/ImageObject. Schema.org has a few dozen things like this.

[ottman]

@markharding any thoughts?