This document describes the software that underpins schema.org. Most collaborators will only need to be able to run it. At this time we do not solicit active collaboration on the codebase itself from the general public.
- see https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/blob/sdo-phobos/LICENSE for opensource license info (Apache2)
The site codebase is a simple Python application. It uses Google App Engine, and is designed to allow schema.org contributors to explore new or improved schemas. The code has a bias towards simplicity and minimal dependencies, rather than elegance and re-usability. We expect collaboration will focus more on schemas and examples than on our supporting software.
The app reads its schemas and examples from the data/ directory when it starts up. These are expressed in simple text formats. Proposals to schema.org can be provided as diffs or github pull requests.
Internally, the app uses a simple RDF-like graph data model, and has a parser for the RDFa Lite subset that we use to represent schemas. Potential contributors are cautioned that this code is not designed to become a general purpose framework, and that we're comfortable with it being hardcoded in various ways around the needs and approaches of schema.org. If that's not too discouraging, do let us know if you find interesting uses for it or have ideas for improvements.
See also wiki: https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/wiki/Contributing
In addition to AppEngine and Python itself, this repository contains copies of the following opensource libraries in the lib/ directory tree.
1.) html5lib/
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/html5lib (MIT License)
2.) isodate/
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/isodate (BSD License)
3.) markdown2/
https://github.com/trentm/python-markdown2 (MIT License)
4.) pyparsing.py
From lib/pyparsing.py
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5.) rdflib/ and rdflib_jsonld/
https://github.com/RDFLib https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib/blob/master/LICENSE
https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib-jsonld https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib-jsonld/blob/master/LICENSE.md