Microdata, RDFa or JSON-LD Appropriate or best usage?

Question

I have been wondering which of those formats is \"best\"? Schema.org, Microdata, and RDFa are bit of a pain to implement. They can break validation and require quite an effo

Answer 1

From scratch, JSON-LD would be the way to go. Let's let one of the primary creators of JSON-LD, Manu Sporny, weigh in:

The desire for better Web APIs is what motivated the creation of JSON-LD, not the Semantic Web. If you want to make the Semantic Web a reality, stop making the case for it and spend your time doing something more useful, like actually making machines smarter or helping people publish data in a way that’s useful to them.

JSON-LD is all about publishing the data in ways that are useful/easy to implement because...

it’s based on technology that most web developers use today.