Can you mark up a page using Schema.org and Facebook Open Graph?

[SAMarketing]

Is it possible to use both Schema.org and Facebook Open Graph for structured data markup?

On the Google Webmaster Central blog, they say, "you should avoid mixing the formats together on the same web page, as this can confuse our parsers."

Source - http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/06/introducing-schemaorg-search-engines.html

[SAMarketing]

Here's a good place to start: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/concepts/opengraph/.

[DCochrane]

Can anyone direct me to  a source on how to apply the Facebook Open Graph markups?

Thanks!

[SAMarketing]

That's helpful. Thank you, Dan.

[HalogenDigital]

I was under the impression that Open Graph data is completely separate from structured data, at least in the way Google is talking about.

There are quite a few examples of websites using both without any issue, for example:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmreviews/9257722/Dark-Shadows-review.html

This review features extensive Open Graph data, in addition to plenty of additional markup data, and this does not affect the rich snippets data which can be found by searching under the keywords "dark shadows review".

[SAMarketing]

I also just found this comment on a GWT support page (http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1093493

"You can use microformats, microdata, or RDFa to mark up your content. However, you should pick one markup standard and use it consistently across the page."

I'm concerned using both will affect our ability to get--and keep--rich snippets in Google.

[HalogenDigital]

I too would like to know this, because I've been doing it for months now. I haven't noticed any rankings issues, mind you, so perhaps it isn't really a big deal?

Providing the data is the same, I can't see it hurting. I will be following this topic with much interest.