--- title: Weird Web Schemas author: George Mandis date: 2011-06-04 description: Somewhere along the way, the people who decided which real-world entities need a dedicated schema to represent online them made some bold choices. tags: post --- Web Schemas [Schema.org](http://schema.org ) provides a collection of ways you can markup your site's HTML so that major search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo! can index things more thoroughly. On the most basic level, it's a way you can explicitly tell a search engine *this* is my phone number, *this* is my address and *this* is a review someone wrote about my business where they gave me *this* many stars. The website is well-documented and [provides a list](http://schema.org/docs/full.html) of the different kinds of entities and things you can represent on your website. And though I appreciate web standards and the idea behind this kind of markup, I can't help but wonder who made some of these choices, as this list gets oddly specific: - [Dry Cleaning or Laundry Business](http://schema.org/DryCleaningOrLaundry) - [Dance Groups](http://schema.org/DanceGroup) - [Comedy Event](http://schema.org/ComedyEvent) - [Literary Event](http://schema.org/LiteraryEvent) - [Painting](http://schema.org/Painting) - [Sculpture](http://schema.org/Sculpture) - [Locksmith](http://schema.org/Locksmith) - [Roofing Contractor](http://schema.org/RoofingContractor) - [Bowling Alley](http://schema.org/BowlingAlley) - [Self Storage](http://schema.org/SelfStorage) - [Tire Shop](http://schema.org/TireShop) - [Waterfalls](http://schema.org/Waterfall) - [Volcanos](http://schema.org/Volcano) Yet nothing for something like a web developer or designer. And if IMDB isn't even bothering to use these schemes for their pages about movies, TV shows and actors... Who is?