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What is JSON-LD?

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What is JSON-LD?

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- [Instructor] You can create JSON structures and schemas for a wide variety of data, but when you're sharing that data with another organization or receiving data built by someone else, it often takes human intervention to classify the content and decide how to integrate it. You can make it possible to automate tasks like this by adding semantic markup to your data. Semantic markup not only organizes the data, but indicates its meaning using a common vocabulary of objects and key names. On the web, a number of semantic systems have been used, including RDFa and microformats. Another popular semantic system based on JSON is known as JSON-LD, which stands for JSON for linking data. JSON-LD follows the rules of JSON, but adds a couple standards to convey the meaning of content. First, it references common vocabularies that are maintained by a variety of organizations, including schema.org, productontology.org, and the W3C.…

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