Re: schema.org and ONIX...

It seems to be a good idea as well.

Think about OPDS as well.

And Education text books vocabularies.

Tnx

Pierre

Le 08/04/14 10:12, « AUDRAIN LUC » <LAUDRAIN@hachette-livre.fr> a écrit :

>Hi Ivan and Bill,
>
>That's a very good exercise and I will share thoughts with Bill at London
>Book Fair if possible.
>I'm really interested as I'm wondering what it will bring for more ebooks
>discoverability on the Web beyond the ONIX feeds we provide already to
>distributors and digital bookstores.
>
>Best,
>Luc
>
>
>> Le 8 avr. 2014 à 05:24, "Ivan Herman" <ivan@w3.org> a écrit :
>> 
>> Bill,
>> 
>> I am currently at a Linked Data Workshop at a conference in Seoul,
>>which had a keynote from R. Guha, who is, in some sense, the "father" of
>>schema.org. Listening to him (combining also with my past experience),
>>and also referring to the note I sent around earlier this morning[1] I
>>am more and more serious in thinking that a stripped-down version of
>>ONIX defined in schema.org might be a great idea. Of course, we have to
>>see whether there is a business interest and business case for this: is
>>there a use case for publishers as well as for search engines? But if
>>the answer is yes on both, than this may be an important thing to do.
>> 
>> I do know Guha personally relatively well, as well as Dan Brickley, who
>>is the other person running schema.org's vocabulary development. I would
>>be happy to make the links and go into the discussions but, of course,
>>the question is whether publishers, as well as institutions like Bowker,
>>would be interested by something like that. I think that clarifying
>>this, ie, set up the use cases, would be perfectly in line with the IG's
>>charter (although we probably would have to spawn a different group to
>>make the specification itself, but that is all right.)
>> 
>> What do you think?
>> 
>> Ivan
>> 
>> [1] 
>>http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/international/london-book-fai
>>r/article/61722-london-book-fair-2014-publishers-and-internet-standards.h
>>tml
>> 
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