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Dear all:

I am happy to announce that the sponsors of schema.org, i.e. Google, Yahoo, Bing, and Yandex, have just implemented my proposal (from September 2011) to add a new property additionalType to http://schema.org/Thing and thus also to http://schema.org/Product.

This allows using the more than 300,000 precise product type identifiers from our http://www.productontology.org service for telling search engines very, very precise the type of products or services you are selling.

For example, a racing bike should now be marked up as follows:

<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Product">
    <link itemprop="additionalType" href="http://www.productontology.org/id/Racing_bicycle" />
    <!-- other schema.org properties go in here -->
</div>	

You can use any reasonable Wikipedia entry for that.

See 

    http://www.productontology.org/doc/Racing_bicycle#microdata

for more details.

This is also the first step in the ongoing effort to make the GoodRelations vocabulary fully available from the schema.org namespace.

Best wishes

Martin

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martin hepp
e-business & web science research group
universitaet der bundeswehr muenchen

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