Open-Gravestones

Open Gravestones is an open source project that will provide public domain cemetery and burial data that is based on open standards such as GeoJSON-LD and Schema.org structured data.

Exisiting data schema:

• https://github.com/geojson/geojson-ld
• http://historical-data.org/Person.html
• http://schema.org/Cemetery
• http://rdf.muninn-project.org/ontologies/graves.html

Each cemetery listing should be encoded with the following Schema.org Cemetery markup:

<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Type" itemid="http://schema.org/Cemetery">
    <link itemprop="subClassOf" href="http://schema.org/CivicStructure"/>
    Address:
    <div itemprop="address" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/PostalAddress">
      <span itemprop="name">Arlington National Cemetery</span>
      <span itemprop="streetAddress">1 Memorial Drive</span>
      <span itemprop="addressLocality">Fort Myer</span>,
      <span itemprop="addressRegion">VA</span>
      <span itemprop="postalCode">22211</span>
    </div>
    Hours: <meta itemprop="openingHours" content="Mo-Su 08:00-17:00">Mon-Sun  8am – 5pm
    Phone: <span itemprop="telephone">877-907-8585</span>
    Website: <a itemprop="url" href="http://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/">http://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/</a>
</div>

Resources

Metadata

• Will most likely utilize something like Places or GeoNamefor resolving place name queries.
• How to mark up your content using microdata (Schema.org)

Get involved!

• Add to our research doc