Welcome to today's session! Please share your role/org and where you live.

Suzanne Mealey, Administrative assistant, O'Brien Arts Centre, Happy Valley-Goose Bay

Welcome to today's session! Please share your role/org and where you live.

Yes we did Susan

Hello everyone

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Please post to "all panelists and attendees" - i.e. change the drop down option before you post :)

schema.org is the search engine partnership

some info from Google: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/intro-structured-data

There are several wordpress plugins for structured data. Here’s one site that rates some of them: https://rich-snippets.io/best-structured-data-plugin-for-wordpress/

Hi Kevin, here’s what I found on Joomla: https://extensions.joomla.org/extension/google-structured-data/

My colleague Annelise Larson has been strongly recommending Schema Pro as a WordPress plugin. I also read good things about RankMath. On a French-language forum, someone reported that RankMath is particularly good with event data. Do Tammy, Caitlin, Inga or anyone else have specific plugin insights to share?

We will explore Joomla more!

Yes Kathleen, we will include the chat text in the follow up.

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Sandy, Internet connections have been dropping more. try logging back on. Yes, we will send link to recording.

Strange that that has happened Sandy. We will share the recorded webinar in the next day ot so.

Would it be accurate to say that schema structured data makes website information easier for search engines to bridge the human language gap between the language of a website and the language used by the searcher (i.e. would French-language user have a easier time finding events posted in English only)?

The Arts Touring Alliance of AB website is not structured data

Still trying to figure out how to do that.

what Suzanne said...

Yes, we have in the way of using a WP plugin like SEO and Schema. www.InnerSpaceConcerts.ca

Tammy - can you talk about how your company is responding to events moving online via structured data? Has schema.org updated how events are structured to account for online events?

Who has access to footlight right now? Is it just the cohorts you are working with or is there a public version, yet?

One more question - Google has a structured data checker tool that allows me to test for structured data. Is that the most useful tool for arts events at this time then - while I await footlight public version?

A sector-owned knowledge graph built with Footlight would help with performing arts discoverability. It could also enable presenting networks such as Atlantic Presenters Association or Arts Touring Alliance of Alberta to query the knowledge graph to access strategic information in order to better support the sector. Think of all the COVID-19 surveys being circulated these days: what if most of that information was readily available in real time and you no longer needed to provide it via a survey? I get quite carried away by such a possibility!

I hope your knowledge graph will include the websites of individual artists too!

Tools for adding structured data (for beginners) from Googles Search Console help: https://support.google.com/webmasters/topic/4599161?hl=en&ref_topic=9456381

https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool - Google structured data testing tool

thank you!

Our Making Tomorrow Better project website is growing with how to information --- next will be some posts on how to structure data https://digitalartsnation.ca/tutorials/ and

We are also posting news and updates including all the webinar recordings here https://digitalartsnation.ca/digital-news/

https://linkeddigitalfuture.ca/

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Thank you!

Thanks....lots of great information! Lots of info to digest and work on. Take care all!

Thanks all

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thank you Tammy & Caitlin - I appreciate the resources!

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Thank you to Tammy and Caitlin. You described the machinations in a way that even I could understand :)

Thank you. Can't wait to get started.

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Thank you everyone