Re: Common programming interfaces for schema.org objects

Steven,

much more reusable transformers would be in the form of SPARQL
CONSTRUCT queries instead of imperative (PHP or other) source code:
http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/#construct

Martynas
graphityhq.com

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 6:14 PM, Steven Maguire <stevenmaguire@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am interested in discussing the possibility of building and hosting PHP
> interfaces for Schema.org data structures within the
> https://github.com/schemaorg organization. My goal is to provide a
> repository of interfaces that will serve as the common "standard" for
> building open source projects that interact with Schema.org data structures.
>
> I have recently begun an open source project to aid in the aggregation and
> normalization of job data available in dozens of independent job listing
> APIs. Part of this project was to outline the definition of "normalized" job
> data; we selected the Schema.org JobPosting data structure. The project,
> built in PHP, currently offers implementations of a design based on the
> Schema.org standards.
>
> We have now turned to a new project of building common format transformers
> of these normalized job objects, into things like XML, CSV, JSON-LD, Excel,
> Google Docs, etc. This project is currently dependent on the aggregation
> package mentioned above; I would like to remove this dependancy. In order to
> remove this, I have planned to create interfaces for the JobPosting objects
> and host them in a separate repository, then update both aggregation and
> transformation packages to depend on these common interfaces.
>
> Before moving forward, I thought that the Schema.org organization would be a
> better host of these assets so I wanted to propose this conversation.
>
> Thoughts, feedback, and input are invited. My goal is to have clarity on the
> following question:
>
> Can I be granted permissions to create a repository within the
> https://github.com/schemaorg organization with the intent of publishing PHP
> interfaces for Schema.org data structures?
>
> Cheers!
>
> Steven Maguire

Received on Sunday, 1 November 2015 21:44:21 UTC