Re: Holdings-as-Offer: more complete examples

Dan, this is great. I think I can do documentation for it -- something 
simple. I'll start that on the wiki unless someone else wants to do it. 
Oddly enough, I actually like doing documentation.

kc

On 10/28/13 10:39 AM, Dan Scott wrote:
> 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!
>
>

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