Describing libraries in schema.org

In thinking about providing properties for library holdings, I started 
looking at how one could define libraries themselves as organizations. 
So far schema has:

Organization

     Corporation
     EducationalOrganization
     GovernmentOrganization
     LocalBusiness
     NGO
     PerformingGroup
     SportsTeam

Libraries are sometimes within educational organizations, sometimes they 
are government organizations, often they are NGO's of a sort. They can 
be within corporations, however. So it seems to me that we will need to 
define Library directly under Organization as a stand-alone entity. By 
using organization the library can have a name, a location, and hours of 
operation, so that is all taken care of. Local business has "branchOf" 
which would be very handy, but isn't available at the Organization level 
so we may need to deal with connecting libraries to their systems.

In terms of holdings and availability, I think we want library-specific 
properties rather than, for example, re-using properties from businesses 
and products -- there might be different services one would apply to 
library availability than to product availability.

Anyway, just some first thoughts.

kc
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Received on Saturday, 12 January 2013 01:30:25 UTC