Meetup, ALA Seattle, and my silence

Hi All,

I can report that we had a SchemaBibExtend face2face meetup at ALA in
Seattle on Friday.  Corine Deliot, Reinhold Heuvelmann, Suzanne Pilsk and I
met in the lounge of the Sheraton.

No specific recommendations were discussed, however amongst the pleasant
conversation there was agreement that we are making useful progress as a
group, and keeping things as simple as we can should continue to be core.

In several sessions at the ALA conference, Schema.org has been mentioned
(and in the ones I was in, the work of this group was also recognised).
This included the BIBFRAME session hosted by the Library of Congress.
Although still early in the process, those working on BIBFRAME are making
good progress in starting to apply Linked Data modelling to the problem of
describing and exchanging rich library metadata.  The bibframe.org site, to
support and document their work, was announced.

As we have discussed, BIBFRAME and Schema.org can be seen as being
complementary to each other, describing the same resources at different
levels of granularity to the library community and the wider web
respectively.   What I saw and heard over the last few days served to
reinforce that.  

I must share a comment from Eric Miller in the BIBFRAME session, answering a
question about where library practice may be heading under these influences
- ³we are moving from cataloguing to catalinking².

Finally, I must apologise for my silence on the list for the last couple of
weeks ­ a combination of too much time in airplanes, a couple of days
vacation, ALA, and the day job have kept me away from email.  I have been
following the threads though, and I think we have made some great progress
on several fronts ­ maybe I should shut up more often ;-)

~Richard.