Re: A view from Semtech

I want to thank Richard and the SchemaBibEx group too.

The fact that the bibliographic community can come together, find common ground with a much broader community, and then significantly extend that view is really inspiring.

Jeff

On Aug 24, 2014, at 12:15 AM, "Dan Scott" <denials@gmail.com<mailto:denials@gmail.com>> wrote:

Thanks for this writeup, Richard. Given the lineup at SemTech, I was suffering from some intense Fear of Missing Out; this helps fill the gap :)

It's great to hear how much of an impact our group has been able to have on such an important vocabulary, beyond just the types and properties and broadened definitions, all the way to process and participation!


On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Wallis,Richard <Richard.Wallis@oclc.org<mailto:Richard.Wallis@oclc.org>> wrote:
The day after Schema.org<http://Schema.org> v1.9, containing our latest proposal set, went live on Monday 19th, I had the good fortune to be at Semtech (Semantic Technology and Business Conference) in San Jose.

It is clear that in the web, semantic web and SEO communities, Schema.org<http://Schema.org> is now mainstream.  This was reflected in the two separate keynotes from two Google folks, Dan Brickley (who runs Schema.org<http://Schema.org> on behalf of Google, Bing, Yahoo! and Yandex) and R.V. Guha (well respected Google Fellow who created RSS, was key in RDF development and created Schema.org<http://Schema.org>).  It was standing room only for both of the sessions.

Through our work in the Schema Bib Extend Group, the bibliographic community has become recognised as a source of valuable input into the Schema.org<http://Schema.org> process.

In Dan Brickley's session I lost track of the number of times he referenced SchemaBibEx.  He described in detail our proposal, in the latest Schema.org<http://Schema.org> release that facilitated the description of Journals and their structure, multi-volume works, and light-weight FRBR style relationships between CreativeWorks (although, quite rightly, he didn't mention the FRBR word).  He also mentioned the broadening of citation to all CreativeWorks, and our influence in making Offer not only applicable to finical transactions.

SchemaBibEx as a group was also used as an example of the way industry specific groups can come together to influence, add value to, and interact with others, to further the development of Schema.org<http://Schema.org> for the benefit of all.  Embarrassingly, Dan twice picked me out to take credit on behalf of the group, and its efforts.

I think as a group we can be proud of the results of our efforts in making the description and exposure of bibliographic resources more comprehensive and comprehensible in the mainstream structured data web.  Although I believe that credit needs to go to the whole group, I must give special mention to Dan Scott for his tenacity and commitment to not only getting our proposals into shape but also helping to push them through the often tortuous public-vocabs list discussions.


~Richard