Holdings-as-Offer: more complete examples

Okay. I've updated
http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/wiki/Holdings_via_Offer to use
"availableAtOrFrom" for shelving location, as that seemed to be the
consensus from the "Holdings-as-Offer: wrap-up" thread at
http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/wiki/Holdings_via_Offer

What also came out of that thread was an expression of interest in
seeing more fully fleshed out examples, showing how the "seller"
property could be connected to a Library in a meaningful sense. I
mentioned my interest in teaching Evergreen how to express the
information that it already knows about its libraries (such as opening
hours, addresses, etc) in such a way that we could link Offer items to
Library items. And so I did, over the weekend, just that.

You might have seen a sneak preview of this on my G+ post at
https://plus.google.com/116747292129029460979/posts/XJ749hYz79q , but
I can now point at an example extracted from an Evergreen system
running the branch of code I created for this purpose at
http://stuff.coffeecode.net/schema.org/evergreen/library_schema_copies.html
. Notice how each of the copies links to the library where that copy
is currently circulating; for example, "Example Branch 1" lives at
http://stuff.coffeecode.net/schema.org/evergreen/library/BR1

Feel free to run the Rich Snippets tool or RDFa extraction tools
against these results. It's a nice beginning, I think, towards turning
this vision into reality. There's much more to do, of course, but the
part that really excites me is that a library running Evergreen would
get this for free - no effort required outside of the normal
administration operations required to set hours of operation, contact
info, etc, that already exist (assuming, of course, that this branch
is polished and eventually accepted into a future Evergreen release).

Note that some of the links on the pages will 404 because I'm not
running a live Evergreen instance on coffeecode.net; I just captured
some HTML that was generated from the branch running on my laptop and
adjusted a few of the URLs to pull in the CSS, etc, so that it didn't
look quite as ugly to humans.

Feedback more than welcome!

Received on Monday, 28 October 2013 17:40:04 UTC