Sitemapsorgin
Sitemapsorgin is a proposed open standard and toolset for representing and exchanging website sitemap information. It aims to extend traditional XML sitemaps by incorporating graph-based relationships, multilingual metadata, and richer change-detection signals. The project envisions a decentralized ecosystem in which website operators, search engines, and third-party crawlers can share consistent sitemap data.
The design combines a lightweight serialization with a graph-structured model. Core concepts include a UrlNode representing
Sitemapsorgin is not as widely adopted as the established XML Sitemap Protocol. It exists primarily within
Criticism centers on complexity and compatibility: crawlers expect standard XML sitemaps, and introducing graph-structural data can
Related topics include the XML Sitemap Protocol, sitemaps.org guidelines, JSON-LD, and RDF-based metadata for web resources.