RE: Third sector services extension?

For inspiration, you could have a look at the Core Public Service Vocabulary developed by a group of European organisations under the umbrella of the European Commission’s ISA programme. Please see https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/64521 for further details.

 

Makx.

 

From: Jen Williams [mailto:jen@networkedplanet.com] 
Sent: 23 August 2016 10:32
To: Vicki Tardif Holland <vtardif@google.com>
Cc: schema.org Mailing List <public-schemaorg@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Third sector services extension?

 

Thanks for the info, good to know any history. I see there's an issue on github concerning types of organisation (https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/425) though my focus is on describing types of services offered by organisations (regardless of whether they are NGOs, Government or community groups) 

 

There's also an interesting project called Open VCS, but again this is to describe VCS organisation details (http://openvcs.github.io/).

 

What would be the best way to proceed in researching how to come up with a viable extension for schema.org <http://schema.org> ? Is there a formal submission process and guidelines?

 

We have a small group gathering but I've not yet started a real push for numbers as I wanted to know the best way to proceed first. I'm sure that commercially driven extensions will always gain more traction than non-commercial, but the benefits of higher quality search results to people who need to find services offered by Not For Profits could really make a difference.

 

 

 

On 22 August 2016 at 19:46, Vicki Tardif Holland <vtardif@google.com <mailto:vtardif@google.com> > wrote:

A few years ago, we added http://schema.org/GovernmentService. We hoped to eventually cover NGO's as well, but the original schema never got much traction, so it fell by the wayside.

 

- Vicki

 

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 8:24 AM, Jen Williams <jen@networkedplanet.com <mailto:jen@networkedplanet.com> > wrote:

Hi schema.org <http://schema.org>  community,

 

Recently at Barcamp Nonprofits (http://barcampnonprofits.com/) we had a session on making services discoverable, which had grown out of previous discussions from the unconference scene in the UK (Open Data Camp and VCSS Camp). Obviously schema.org <http://schema.org>  came up as part of that discussion. 

 

What we'd like to know is whether anyone is spearheading the creation of a schema.org <http://schema.org>  extension for describing the services provided by third (voluntary) sector organisations. If no one is, what's the best way to get one started?

 

It sounds like this might overlap with some of the work done by the Open Referral project over in the US (the Open Eligibility project certainly is a great taxonomy to use as a starting point) and our first step of course is to make sure that work isn't being duplicated while at the same time providing terms and descriptions for NFP services that go beyond the human services focused on in the Open Referral project (e.g. environmental and so on).

 

Can anyone give more info on whether this has been or is being looked into by schema.org <http://schema.org> ? If so, what's the history and progress? We'd like to lend our time and support to extending schema.org <http://schema.org>  coverage of the voluntary sector.

 

Many thanks,

 

Jen 


 

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