Re: Overhauled & improved Evergreen implementation of schema.org

Hi Dan - welcome back!

This is great progress.

I agree that extension proposals will be stronger if they are actually
implemented in more than one system.  Holdings being an obvious candidate
- but anything else would be useful.

I suspect that many developers of boring old integrated library systems or
discovery layers are keeping their heads down until a 'standard' emerges
and the users of boring old integrated library systems or discovery layers
start to put pressure on them to implement.  ;-)

~Richard.

On 08/04/2013 19:47, "Dan Scott" <dscott@laurentian.ca> wrote:

>Hey all:
>
>Sorry for basically disappearing for the past couple of months. Anyway, I
>thought it would be worthwhile pointing out the improved Evergreen
>implementations of schema.org in microdata & RDFa Lite that I've posted
>on our test servers (heads-up: the servers are starved for resources, so
>broad searches in particular are likely to time out). Here's a couple of
>sample records:
>
>Microdata: http://laurentian-test.concat.ca/eg/opac/record/345239
>RDFa Lite: http://rdfa_lite_test.concat.ca/eg/opac/record/345239
>
>Of note:
>
>* Personal main/added entries are now Person objects; and where
>available, they have birthDate and deathDate properties.
>* Corporate main/added entries are now Organization objects.
>* Albums are now correctly typed as MusicAlbum instead of MusicRecording.
>Aside: WorldCat also seems to have made the same mistake. If it's
>possible to claim prior art on a mistake, then I think this one is all
>mine as the public commit is dated March 18, 2012! Fixing this enabled
>Ross Singer's cool Backbeat GreaseMonkey script to actually work :)
>* Added a mapping for cartographic types to Map objects.
>
>Note that this is all in a proposed branch for Evergreen, not yet
>committed. Definitely getting better, though.
>
>Again, I welcome comments and extend my offer to model proposals for
>extensions (for example, holdings). I think it makes our extension
>proposals stronger if they're actually implemented by more than one
>system. 
>
>On that note: is anyone aware of any other boring old integrated library
>systems or discovery layers that are trying to publish schema.org data? I
>see VuFind has an old Jira ticket at
>http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-425 but they don't seem to be
>working on making it a default.
>
>Dan
>
>
>

Received on Tuesday, 9 April 2013 08:40:34 UTC