Re: Meetup, ALA Seattle, and my silence

Richard,

Thanks for the update.

I note that our next meeting is over 2 weeks away. I'd like to get 
further on the holdings "question" before that meeting so that we can 
discuss it then. There's a section in Use Cases, but I have also added 
some background data and data examples in:
http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/wiki/Object_Types#Library_Holdings

and I have continued to add screen shots to

http://kcoyle.net/holdings.html

I'm not sure what the next step is. I'm not sure that the object types 
page is the right place, but I don't think we're ready for a vocabulary 
proposal. Perhaps I could propose a few specific questions to discuss on 
the list? Or take the possible properties one at a time? Anyone have ideas?

kc

On 1/28/13 7:40 PM, Richard Wallis wrote:
> 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 - “/we are moving from cataloguing to catalinking/”.
>
> 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.

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