RE: Next Meeting - Schema Bib Extend W3C Group - 17th October

Jean,

 

I like where this is heading. In the experimental WorldCat.org Linked Data so far (online RDFa and bulk N-Triples) I used skos:Concept for these situations. In my dev environment, though, I started the switch to schema:Intangible but wasn't entirely happy with it. This proposal is much more satisfying.

 

One issue comes to mind for discussion, though. This proposed schema:Concept feels more equivalent to FRBR Concept than it does to skos:Concept. The difference is subtle but real, IMO, and has to do with foaf:focus (with a range of "Thing" and inverse of madsrdf:isIdentifiedByAuthority) being a meaningful property for the latter (skos:Concept) but not the former (FRBR Concept). VIAF (which doesn't currently attempt to identify FRBR Concepts) is probably the best illustration of the issues involved.

I realize that schema:Concept is destined to be a compromise, but it would be nice (albeit perhaps not necessary) if this group had a clear understanding and articulation of those compromises to minimize confusion in industrial-strength use cases. 

 

Jeff

 

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Subject: Re: Next Meeting - Schema Bib Extend W3C Group - 17th October

 

Hi all,

 

First I want to thank you for accepting my application to participate to your work group.

 

I had been working this summer on an extension of Schema.org for controlled vocabularies based on Skos ontology. After BnF published Rameau in the LOD but also as web pages, one for each concept, I thought it will be useful to have an extension of Schema.org to make concepts defined in controlled vocabularies more visible by search engines. 

Concepts are good candidates for TopicPages, and work as hub to access well annotated contents or others Topic Pages. They are a valuable asset for content / knowledge access from a search engine. 

 

Also it happens to find "glossary", "terminology" or "lexicon" in a web site. This extension of Schema.org will enable to describe those types of publication.

 

I took the initiative of this work but immediately ask for support and review work to Antoine Isaac and Romain Weinz. They have been very encouraging and already proposed corrections included in this version.

 

You'll find attached the proposal for the Skos Schema.org extension, we made it as simple and light as possible. 

 

I propose, if the group agrees, to have a first discussion on this proposal inside our group before to publish it for a larger audience..

 

Best regards

 

Talk to you on Thursday.

 

Jean Delahousse

2012/10/10 Richard Wallis <richard.wallis@oclc.org>

Hi All,

It is about time we followed up on the excellent first meeting we had.

I have scheduled conference call time for 11:00am EDT next Wednesday 17th October for us to start to talk through some of the issues and suggestions we discussed last time.

You will find call in details and a provisional agenda on the group wiki here: http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/wiki/Meet_20121017

If you have suggestions for the agenda, either edit the wiki or drop me a line.

Regards,
    Richard.

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Richard Wallis
Technology Evangelist
OCLC







 

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