Re: Holdings-as-Offer: wrap-up

On Oct 19, 2013 4:00 PM, "Young,Jeff (OR)" <jyoung@oclc.org> wrote:
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> Schema.org has a branchOf property that probably has a role to play
sorting this out.

+1 - absolutely.

> I would argue that a "library system" like NYPL (in general) is more like
an administrative agency than it is an agency where books are being
circulated. The fact that the word "library" appears in the name shouldn't
be a huge problem for search engines if the data publishers are careful.
>

Agreed. Perhaps my fault was in not publishing a complete, ideal example
that would demonstrate branch relationships, geographic coordinates,
contact info, addresses, etc, where each library had its own URL that
contained that structured data so that we could link to those pages rather
than falling back to Text values. But that would force us to solve all
possible problems first before publishing something that should work for
the most common use cases.

I was assuming that the group would mentally fill in the gaps, similar to
how most of the existing schema.org examples reflect only a subset of what
is possible and ideal.