Apply Rich Text Standards for Content Types

[budparr]

This notice came for thenewdynamic.org but it's a signal that Google expects fields in JSON+LD to conform to rich text standards, and I think, of the various standards, events is one we should account for and we should review all content types for logical inclusion

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/event

Details

Search Console has identified that your site is affected by 6 Events issues:

Top Errors
Errors can prevent your page or feature from appearing in Search results. The following errors were found on your site:
Missing field "startDate"
Missing field "name"
Missing field "location"

Top Warnings
Warnings are suggestions for improvement. Some warnings can affect your appearance on Search;
some might be reclassified as errors in the future. The following warnings were found on your site:
Missing field "endDate"
Missing field "performer"
Missing field "offers"

[budparr]

Got this on TND as well

[regisphilibert]

Yes. It's a bit tricky though. Directories (and therefor content types) are rarely named the same across multiple users. events, event etc... Plus the Front Matter keys needed to build say the "location" map of an event will also never be consistent across multiple users.

I suppose the idea, is the add another form of extendability limited to jsonld data per types so users can build whatever they need for it.

[budparr]

Well we can standardize for users, just in the way Google is doing. If you have events, you need X field and Y field, etc. And if you do that we'll give you the output to make Google happy. Am I wrong in thinking that's appropriate?

Ultimately, this is an important feature because Google will send end-users Error messages. I'd rather it be a bit rigid than not have it or try to make something that can handle every case out there