Introduction: Dan Brickley (Schema.org and Google)

Dear DXWG WG,

Apologies for having missed the initial discussions here - I've just joined
this week to represent Google in the WG. I see that
https://www.w3.org/2017/dxwg/wiki/Use_Case_Working_Space is just about to
close in terms of F2F agenda items but suspect it is more useful to send an
introductory message here, rather than directly add detailed use cases.

Background: I've been hanging around W3C and Dublin Core since '97 in
various capacities, previously working on acronyms such as RDF, RDFS, SKOS,
FOAF, CSVW. Most recently I have been working at Google and running the
Schema.org project (see http://schema.org/docs/howwework.html and
http://www.w3.org/community/schemaorg).

Formally here I represent Google; informally Schema.org. A few words about
Google's interest in the WG. We have various efforts related to improving
data(set) discovery on the Web. For Google Search most of our structured
data efforts
<https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/intro-structured-data>
take Schema.org vocabulary as the base, using any of rdfa, json-ld,
microdata syntaxes. In the case of datasets things are a little different;
while we start from the DCAT-inspired parts of Schema.org but we also
understand basic DCAT in its W3C namespace (so long as it is in a syntax
we're already parsing), and we are looking to go deeper into dataset
contents (e.g. via W3C CSVW, Data Cube, QUDT, SKOS etc). Other active
interests include the CSVW capability to map tabular data into
triples/graphs, the relationship between datasets and software (opensource,
cloud machine images such as docker etc.), relationship to fact checking
markup <https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/factcheck>
etc., encouraging dataset citation efforts (books, blog posts, scholarly
articles etc.).

>From the earlier W3C data on the Web workshop (pre-CSVW), here's an old
Schema.org position paper -
https://www.w3.org/2013/04/odw/odw13_submission_53.pdf that might be of
interest. As far as Schema.org for now I'll just say that I'm committed to
minimizing avoidable differences between W3C's approaches to dataset
description and what we're doing at Schema.org.  It might well be that
there is scope for a closer collaboration but I don't want to assume too
much!

Anyway, happy to be involved here and hope to see many of you at the F2F,

cheers,

Dan