Legal Information for Organizations (Issue #4366)#4439
Legal Information for Organizations (Issue #4366)#4439alex-jansen merged 1 commit intoschemaorg:mainfrom
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The following commit completes legal information of Organizations to comply with the optional properties of an Imprint. Following properties have been added: - companyRegistration with the range Certification - legalAddress with the range PostalAddress - legalRepresentative with the range Person.
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Should be fine now. @gmackenz Sorry for the trouble |
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Since those are brand new properties it would have been better to add them to Pending first (we typically add new things first to pending, and only after there is some proven adoption by the ecosystem we move them out of Pending). However, since it does not seem very controversial I will go ahead this time without the Pending tag. |
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Hey, I will align with that for future requests. Is there any past PR that you feel illustrates best how to implement pending fields? |
#3441 is a recent example |
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Hi, the new Organization legal information was previously published and accessible through the main shcema.org website. However, There doesn't appear to be other threads on this, so posting here, as the merge doesn't seem to have completed. |
The following commit completes legal information of Organizations to comply with the optional properties of an Imprint. Following properties have been added: - companyRegistration with the range Certification - legalAddress with the range PostalAddress - legalRepresentative with the range Person.
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This should be fixed now, @itsgroup-co-nz can you verify on your side? |
Great, thanks for checking that out! All appears to be working now; validates, and als no 404 errors on the main site. |
The following commit completes legal information of Organizations to comply with the optional properties of an Imprint. Following properties have been added:
Closes: #4366
Background regarding the legal information required on company run websites in Europe
Germany, Austria and other jurisdiction require companies (organizations) to publish all legal information of a company on their website. Also Google does that for example here:
Google Germany Imprint
In fact for example to be eligible to run Google Ads you are required to ad the information to your own website.
It is advised by many search engines to use this page (or any other about us page) to contain the structured data about the website publishing organization. Facebook for example also allows to add the information to pages:
Add an Impressum to your Facebook Page
We seemingly have everything in there inside organization, but not the basic legal fields that are even required by Google to do certain things.
Fixes: #4366
Addition of new properties to Organization
To allow standardisation of the information set I have tried with this PR to align the organization structured data with the legal requirements of the imprint by allowing more values.
Upon close inspection following values are not mandatory but can be contained in the Imprint:
legal representative
Example Implementation
The example below contains also a proposal for stock capital, if desired.