Re: Third sector services extension?

Thanks for the info, good to know any history. I see there's an issue on
github concerning types of organisation (
https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/425) though my focus is on
describing types of services offered by organisations (regardless of
whether they are NGOs, Government or community groups)

There's also an interesting project called Open VCS, but again this is to
describe VCS organisation details (http://openvcs.github.io/).

What would be the best way to proceed in researching how to come up with a
viable extension for schema.org? Is there a formal submission process and
guidelines?

We have a small group gathering but I've not yet started a real push for
numbers as I wanted to know the best way to proceed first. I'm sure that
commercially driven extensions will always gain more traction than
non-commercial, but the benefits of higher quality search results to people
who need to find services offered by Not For Profits could really make a
difference.



On 22 August 2016 at 19:46, Vicki Tardif Holland <vtardif@google.com> wrote:

> A few years ago, we added http://schema.org/GovernmentService. We hoped
> to eventually cover NGO's as well, but the original schema never got much
> traction, so it fell by the wayside.
>
> - Vicki
>
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 8:24 AM, Jen Williams <jen@networkedplanet.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi schema.org community,
>>
>> Recently at Barcamp Nonprofits (http://barcampnonprofits.com/) we had a
>> session on making services discoverable, which had grown out of previous
>> discussions from the unconference scene in the UK (Open Data Camp and VCSS
>> Camp). Obviously schema.org came up as part of that discussion.
>>
>> What we'd like to know is whether anyone is spearheading the creation of
>> a schema.org extension for describing the services provided by third
>> (voluntary) sector organisations. If no one is, what's the best way to get
>> one started?
>>
>> It sounds like this might overlap with some of the work done by the Open
>> Referral project over in the US (the Open Eligibility project certainly is
>> a great taxonomy to use as a starting point) and our first step of course
>> is to make sure that work isn't being duplicated while at the same time
>> providing terms and descriptions for NFP services that go beyond the human
>> services focused on in the Open Referral project (e.g. environmental and so
>> on).
>>
>> Can anyone give more info on whether this has been or is being looked
>> into by schema.org? If so, what's the history and progress? We'd like to
>> lend our time and support to extending schema.org coverage of the
>> voluntary sector.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Jen
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> *Jen Williams*
>> *Networked Planet Ltd*
>> http://www.networkedplanet.com
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>>
>>
>>
>


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