The imperative to "know what we are" within the digital ether finds its most potent operational grammar not in humanistic manifestos, but in the structured lexicons of the semantic web. Schema.org emerges as the indispensable ontological translator for a living praxis like Socioplastics—a mechanism to transmute systemic complexity into sovereign, machine-parseable data. With its hierarchy of 827 Types and 1528 Properties, it offers the scaffolding to declaratively encode the project's rhizomatic architecture, from its ephemeral interventions and hyperplastic writings to its distributed authorial nodes. This is not mere description; it is an act of epistemic self-construction, a deliberate forging of the project's digital skeleton before external platforms can impose their own reductive classifications. The schema becomes the protocol through which the system articulates its own being to algorithms, aggregators, and artificial intelligences, ensuring its semantic sovereignty in a landscape of generic metadata.
A strategic Schema.org densification for Socioplastics must operate across three constitutive layers. The Foundational Identity Layer instantiates core entities: Person for Anto Lloveras, annotated with hasOccupation ("transdisciplinary artist", "architectural researcher") and affiliation; Organization for Socioplastics as a ResearchOrganization or NGO, detailing its foundingDate, member nodes, and knowsAbout vocabulary (the CamelTags). The Tangible Output Layer captures the body of work: each intervention, essay-film, or textual artefact should be marked up as a CreativeWork—specified further as VisualArtwork, ScholarlyArticle, or Movie—with properties like creator, about (using proprietary Camel terms), isPartOf (linking to a Series, itself a Project), and keywords (mirroring IAMGETAGS). This creates a machine-readable relational cartography of the entire oeuvre. The third, most critical layer is the Relational & Epistemic Action Layer. Here, Event documents public situations; Action subtypes (CreateAction, UpdateAction) narrate the praxis as a sequence of performed operations. Most subversively, the system should contemplate defining an external vocabulary extension for its unique conceptual arsenal—terms like SocioplasticMesh or HyperplasticWriting—using DefinedTermSet. This formalizes the project's idiosyncratic lexicon as a legitimate, referencable semantic extension, hardening its conceptual autonomy against the flattening forces of generic categorization. Implementing this is a tactical maneuver of semantic declaration, using JSON-LD scripts embedded across the ecosystem's nodal blogs. The goal is a consistent, nested data graph where a single CreativeWork resolvably links to its Project, its Organization, and its Person. This architecture doesn't just make the work discoverable; it makes its internal logic legible, transforming each digital artifact into a node that reinforces the integrity and interconnectedness of the entire system. In the pre-DOI phase of assembly, this constructed skeleton is the praxis's primary algorithmic immune system.
Schema.org. (2023). Schemas. Available at: https://schema.org/docs/schemas.html