Re: Welcome & introductions

Another belated introduction.

My name is Vicki Tardif Holland. I am based in Cambridge, MA. I work for
Google on structured data schemas, particularly schema.org.

My background is in Library Science, and I have a personal interest in
making educational materials my accessible, which starts with
discoverability. A courses extension to schema.org mixes the personal with
the professional.

I am excited to attend the kick-off meeting shortly.

- Vicki

Vicki Tardif Holland | Ontologist | vtardif@google.com


On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com> wrote:

> On 16 December 2015 at 08:59, Phil Barker <phil.barker@hw.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Hello all, and welcome to the W3C schema course extension community
> > group[1]. Thank you for joining. By joining the group you also
> subscribed to
> > this public email list.
> >
> > With holidays for many of us coming up, now isn't a great time to start
> the
> > main business of the group, but I think it might be useful to make a
> start
> > with some introductions and some initial setting up tasks. I'll deal with
> > the latter in another email; first introductions.
>
> A belated introduction.
>
> My name is Dan Brickley. I'm based in London and work for Google,
> primarily on schema.org but also related standards efforts e.g. W3C
> CSVW [0].
>
> My interest in course description metadata dates back to the first Web
> projects I worked on - online teaching and learning efforts [1],
> career development and networking sites for researchers [2], and
> standards-based content sharing for online question/answer delivery
> [3].
>
> However as you can tell from all the 1990s archive.org cache URLs and
> mentions of SGML on those sites, I haven't been active in that field
> for a while. My main responsibility in this group is not as an
> educational technologist, but as liaison to the broader schema.org
> initiative where I serve a chairing, webmastering, and
> coordinating-dogsbody role. In a W3C setting I chair the W3C
> Schema.org Community Group [4]; I also help Guha lead the schema.org
> steering group [5] and handle the process of turning rough consensus
> in these community groups into draft changes to schema.org which (with
> steering group review/signoff) get periodically published to the
> project's official site. A good practical way to get a feel for the
> typical style, granularity and pace of our work is to take a look at
> the schema.org release notes page [6] and the corresponding Github
> repository to which it links [7].
>
> This relatively new Community Group brings into focus some discussions
> around schema.org for courses which have been moving along slowly for
> quite a while. I am optimistic that we will be able to move fairly
> quickly by building on those existing efforts, despite the many ways
> in which it can be difficult to scope and finalize education-related
> schemas.
>
> I look forward to working with you all,
>
> Dan
>
> [0] https://www.w3.org/2013/csvw/wiki/Main_Page
> [1] https://web.archive.org/web/19961030081652/http://bized.ac.uk/
> [2] http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue15/planet-sosig/
> [3]
> https://web.archive.org/web/19980610224343/http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/netquest/
> [4] http://www.w3.org/community/schemaorg/
> [5] http://schema.org/docs/about.html
> [6] http://schema.org/docs/releases.html
> [7] https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg
>
>