Karen, Note that Schema.org has a model for http://schema.org/Library that includes a "branchOf" property inherited from http://schema.org/LocalBusiness. I've copied team members of the WorldCat Registry <http://worldcat.org/registry/Institutions> service to let them know that the community is starting to imagine the benefits of this approach. Jeff > -----Original Message----- > From: Karen Coyle [mailto:kcoyle@kcoyle.net] > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 8:30 PM > To: public-schemabibex@w3.org > Subject: 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 > -- > Karen Coyle > kcoyle@kcoyle.net <mailto:kcoyle@kcoyle.net> http://kcoyle.net <http://kcoyle.net> > ph: 1-510-540-7596 > m: 1-510-435-8234 > skype: kcoylenet >
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