Re: Describing libraries in schema.org

Thanks, Jeff. I didn't even think to look for it under "local business". 
So with that (including "branch of") we probably have the library as 
organization covered, although we should think about the various library 
identifiers as part of our work on identifiers in general. I'm thinking 
things like the LC organization codes [1], the OCLC cataloging 
institution codes (not sure what these are officially called), and the 
ISIL [2].

There is a property "additionalType" that we might consider for library 
types, such as "public" "school" "university" "research" "corporate" -- 
already those types show some difficulties. However, I don't know of an 
ontology of types -- does anyone?

And do we think that "makesOffer" works for item availability? (checked 
out, not checked out, missing)

kc


[1] http://loc.gov/marc/organizations/orgshome.html
[2] http://biblstandard.dk/isil/

On 1/11/13 6:30 PM, Young,Jeff (OR) wrote:
> Karen,
>
> Note that Schema.org has a model for http://schema.org/Library that
> includes a "branchOf" property inherited from
> http://schema.org/LocalBusiness.
>
> I've copied team members of the WorldCat Registry
> <http://worldcat.org/registry/Institutions> service to let them know
> that the community is starting to imagine the benefits of this approach.
>
> Jeff
>
>  > -----Original Message-----
>
>  > From: Karen Coyle [mailto:kcoyle@kcoyle.net]
>
>  > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 8:30 PM
>
>  > To: public-schemabibex@w3.org
>
>  > Subject: Describing libraries in schema.org
>
>  >
>
>  > In thinking about providing properties for library holdings, I started
>
>  > looking at how one could define libraries themselves as organizations.
>
>  > So far schema has:
>
>  >
>
>  > Organization
>
>  >
>
>  >      Corporation
>
>  >      EducationalOrganization
>
>  >      GovernmentOrganization
>
>  >      LocalBusiness
>
>  >      NGO
>
>  >      PerformingGroup
>
>  >      SportsTeam
>
>  >
>
>  > Libraries are sometimes within educational organizations, sometimes
>
>  > they are government organizations, often they are NGO's of a sort. They
>
>  > can be within corporations, however. So it seems to me that we will
>
>  > need to define Library directly under Organization as a stand-alone
>
>  > entity. By using organization the library can have a name, a location,
>
>  > and hours of operation, so that is all taken care of. Local business
>
>  > has "branchOf"
>
>  > which would be very handy, but isn't available at the Organization
>
>  > level so we may need to deal with connecting libraries to their
>
>  > systems.
>
>  >
>
>  > In terms of holdings and availability, I think we want library-specific
>
>  > properties rather than, for example, re-using properties from
>
>  > businesses and products -- there might be different services one would
>
>  > apply to library availability than to product availability.
>
>  >
>
>  > Anyway, just some first thoughts.
>
>  >
>
>  > kc
>
>  > --
>
>  > Karen Coyle
>
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>
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>
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