Add open graph metadata

[anselmbradford]

Details
The page needs http://ogp.me/ metadata added to the site's pages in /app/views/.

To Fix
Read the documentation for Open Graph and add the required meta data to the site's HTML.

[monfresh]

@anselmbradford What advantages does this provide? How does this relate to accessibility (the issue has that label)? This doesn't seem like a "must have" to me. If not, please close it.

[anselmbradford]

@monfresh It's like microdata—it's markup that adds structured meaning to the page. It is currently being consumed by Facebook, Google, and mixi (whatever that is).

[monfresh]

What is the advantage of having the data consumed by Facebook, Google, and mixi?

[anselmbradford]

Same as for microdata, it allows them to pull results from our interface into their search interfaces in structured ways.

[monfresh]

How is this different from the schema.org microdata that we already have? What does adding open graph microdata provide that schema.org doesn't, and is it beneficial for the type of website that Ohana Web Search is?

[anselmbradford]

It's just another way of exposing the search results to other search engines. In this case it's probably primarily beneficial to Facebook. As I understand it, if you share a page on Facebook that has Open Graph metadata, it can be displayed more intelligently. A simple example would be posting a link to a page that contains an image and having just the link URL appear as the post vs the link URL and an image and text pulled from the page. That's just an analogous example, because FB probably does that with images with or without OG, but it's that sort of thing. FB can be more intelligent with how URLs of ohana web search are shared and show up in searches. And Google does whatever they do with it too. It's complementary to Microdata, not a replacement. For example, if you look at the source on a yelp location you can see both (og: meta tags=open graph, and itemscope=microdata).

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