Thanks, Owen. This is interesting.
In the schemaBibEx [1] group we have for the moment punted on serial
holdings, in part because we don't have a use case for digging into
detail in that environment. (And we all know it will be very complicated.)
We're looking at actual library holdings statements [2] and trying to
imagine how to express those on the web in a way that will expose
library services. Since schema.org is intended to be "simple markup" for
web pages, it's interesting to think in terms of what services might be
useful when, for example, a library's holdings are linked to a Wikipedia
article for a person or subject. This could extend John Ockerbloom's
library resources box in Wikipedia.[3]
At the moment we're thinking in terms of location (library and shelf),
availability (on shelf, checked out, library use only) and services
(place a hold, download, check out ebook).
kc
[1] http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/wiki/Holdings
[2] http://kcoyle.net/holdings.html
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Library_resources_box
On 7/24/13 12:43 AM, Owen Stephens wrote:
On the holdings front also see the work being done on a holding ontology at
https://github.com/dini-ag-kim/holding-ontology (and related mailing list
http://lists.d-nb.de/mailman/listinfo/dini-ag-kim-bestandsdaten) - discussion
all in English
Owen
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On 23 Jul 2013, at 21:14, Dan Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Laura:
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Laura Krier <[email protected]> wrote:
<snip>
The area where I'm most involved right now is in releasing library holdings
metadata openly on the web, in discoverable and re-usable forms. It's
amazing to me that we still don't do this. Imagine the things that could be
created by users and software developers if they had access to information
about which libraries hold which resources.
I'm really interested in your efforts on this front, and where this
work is taking place, as that's what I'm trying to do as part of my
participation in the W3C Schema Bib Extend Community Group at
http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/
See the thread starting around
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-schemabibex/2013Jul/0068.html
where we're trying to work out how best to surface library holdings in
schema.org structured data, with one effort focusing on reusing the
"Offer" class. There are many open questions, of course, but one of
the end goals (at least for me) is to get the holdings into a place
where regular people are most likely to find them: in search results
served up by search engines like Google and Bing.
If you're not involved in the W3C community group, maybe you should
be! And it would be great if you could point out where your work is
taking place so that we can combine forces.
Dan
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