Use of Standards
Uranus adheres to a range of established web and data standards to ensure interoperability, accessibility, and future-proof integration with external systems and platforms.
By aligning with these standards, Uranus ensures:
- Compatibility with common platforms (CMS, APIs, portals)
- Easy reuse of data across systems
- Improved visibility on the open web (search, aggregators, assistants)
- Better user experience across devices and systems
Schema.org Compatibility
Uranus adopts schema.org ↗ vocabularies to structure event and venue data semantically. This improves machine readability and supports integration with search engines, aggregators, and intelligent assistants.
Examples include:
- Event (for core event information)
- Place and Venue
- Organization (for organizers)
- Person (for contributors or speakers)
This enables search engines to understand and highlight events in rich results.
JSON & JSON-LD
All Uranus API responses are returned in structured JSON ↗, making them easy to parse in virtually any modern programming environment.
Where semantic annotation is beneficial (e.g., for embedding in web pages), JSON-LD ↗ (JSON for Linked Data) is supported or can be generated from the API output using schema.org mappings.
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Event",
"name": "Public Lecture Series",
"startDate": "2025-09-12T18:00",
"location": {
"@type": "Place",
"name": "Main Hall",
"address": {
"@type": "PostalAddress",
"addressLocality": "Berlin",
"postalCode": "10115",
"streetAddress": "Hauptstr. 10"
}
}
}
WKT & Geo Standards
Uranus supports spatial data using WKT ↗ (Well-Known Text) for representing geographic locations, such as:
- POINT (13.4050 52.5200) — Latitude and longitude in WKT format.
This allows integration with GIS tools and mapping libraries (e.g., Leaflet ↗, OpenLayers ↗, MapLibre ↗, QGIS ↗) with minimal conversion.
SEO & Semantic Tagging
Structured data helps improve Search Engine Optimization (SEO) by enabling:
- Rich search snippets for events, venues, and organizations.
- Better visibility in event-specific search results (e.g., Google Events).
- Indexing by cultural databases, calendars, and aggregators.
Social Metadata (SOME Tags)
Uranus encourages the use of SOME (Social Media) metadata for effective sharing:
- Open Graph Tags ↗ (used by Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.)
- Twitter Cards (for better event previews on X/Twitter)