Re: Changes vs. new element

My Suggestion.

Throw your work in progress of Schema examples onto an Etherpad, so that
everyone can see, comment, etc.


On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Thad Guidry <thadguidry@gmail.com> wrote:

> That is what I am saying Dan Scott, and others.
>
> If you build it...they will come...and "they" are the Search companies
> invested in this, just as much as you and Libraries are.
> There are many folks on the inside of "they", that have been waiting for
> movement in this area, on your part.
>
> So... get 'er done.  The rest of the nice UX fantasizing that your talking
> about is already in prototyping stages (in various parts and pieces,
> including mobile), you just do not see or know about it yet. :-)
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Dan Scott <denials@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Wallis,Richard <Richard.Wallis@oclc.org>
>> wrote:
>> >>To the User, it's an offer.  A free one.  That is offered by a
>> particular
>> >> organization... a local branch of a library or library system.
>> >
>> >>Do you care at that point that the user has 10 other additional data
>> >> elements exposed to them on Google's search element ?  Probably not...
>> you
>> >> just want them coming into the library.
>> >
>> >
>> > In that case, the exposure of call number/shelf location (in Schema)
>> would
>> > be superfluous, as it is unlikely that Google would display it in a
>> snippet
>> > – there would be no room after the title/creator/subject stuff.  And it
>> is
>> > not useful to the user at that point.
>>
>> It might not appear in a snippet; in Google, for example, individual
>> offers (sales, loans, what not) could appear on the right hand side as
>> part of their Knowledge Graph effort. Although yes, they would likely
>> just be links to the corresponding offer page that can provide all of
>> the gory details. Possibly something like:
>>
>> * Buy an ebook: Vendor1, Vendor2
>> * Buy a physical copy: Vendor3, Vendor4
>> * Borrow a copy: Library1, Library2
>>
>> If I can be permitted to fantasize about a library scenario for a
>> moment, if the search engine recognized via your location or IP
>> address that you were in or near a library, it could serve as your
>> library catalogue and display the additional metadata when it was
>> actually useful to you (much as it detects when you're looking up
>> movies, it can show you the local movie listings, including name &
>> address of the theatre, immediately rather than forcing you to click
>> through).
>>
>> To fantasize further, if you maintained a wishlist that the search
>> engine knew about, it could send you Google Now / Siri notifications
>> when the item became available...
>>
>
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