Re: Holdings-as-Offer: more complete examples

Dan, I hadn't seen the current state of your 'holdings as offer' 
document, but that definitely looks like the kind of documentation I was 
thinking of.

It also occurs to me that we should get some more folks (and vendors) 
looking at this -- perhaps a post on code4lib and even bibframe lists. 
If this sounds like a good idea, do you want to do a bit more cleanup on 
the page first?

Thanks,
kc

On 10/29/13 7:03 AM, Dan Scott wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net> wrote:
>> Dan, this is great.
>
> Thanks!
>
>> 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.
>
> I don't think that's odd at all; I spent a number of years as a tech
> writer and information architect :)
>
> Before you dive in too deep, we should probably kick around some
> basics: when you say "something simple", what kind of documentation do
> you think is needed? What kind of audience do you have in mind, and
> why are they reading this documentation? How much familiarity do they
> have with structured data and the particulars of microdata and RDFa,
> linked data, vocabularies and ontologies in general and schema.org in
> particular? Are these docs meant to live on the W3C community site, or
> to be published elsewhere?
>
> I was hoping to flesh out the current Holdings-as-Offer recommendation
> document (which I would argue is currently pretty simple, albeit
> terse) with a targeted audience of library/archive/museum system
> developers who have heard about this schema.org / schemabibex thing
> and who want to (or have been told to) make their system play nicely
> with the Holdings-as-Offer approach, which also necessitates exposing
> their Library data. I would assume a basic level of familiarity with
> schema.org and microdata / RDFa (but will provide pointers to relevant
> resources where they can learn more) and focus on the mappings. It
> would be nice to have these level of document eventually live on the
> schema.org site, but it could evolve on the W3C community site for the
> time being.
>

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