Re: Third sector services extension?

There's not a connection with Open 311 (currently!), but it's great to hear
about these other efforts to address similar or overlapping issues (
http://lists.open311.org/groups/discuss/messages/topic/5YKT3xGqXs6J3nItzYLnzZ)
so that we can attempt to avoid reinventing the wheel and put energies
where they are best used.

I will do further research and agree that a W3C community group would be
the best way to coordinate efforts, if others here believe it to be
worthwhile of deeper discussion (currently we've just started a Slack
team). The next IRL meeting about the NFP taxonomy we are planning will be
at ODCamp UK (November, Cardiff) should anyone like to come and chat in
person about it all, where we hope to have disseminate the other efforts
out there and come up with an Almightly Plan Of Action ;-)

Really appreciate everyone's input, thanks!

Jen

On 23 August 2016 at 17:38, Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com> wrote:

> On 22 August 2016 at 13:24, Jen Williams <jen@networkedplanet.com> wrote:
> > Hi 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 came up as part of that discussion.
> >
> > What we'd like to know is whether anyone is spearheading the creation of
> a
> > 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? If so, what's the history and progress? We'd like to
> lend our
> > time and support to extending schema.org coverage of the voluntary
> sector.
>
> Sounds like everyone's said almost everything I could think to say on
> this :) Seems like a great topic for deeper attention. It might be the
> right sized topic for a W3C community group....
>
> One thought - is there any connection with Open 311?
> https://www.mysociety.org/2013/01/17/open311-explained/
> http://www.open311.org/2015/06/highlights-from-the-open311-ecosystem/ etc?
>
> Dan
>
>
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > Jen
> >
> > --
> >
> > Jen Williams
> >
> > Networked Planet Ltd
> > http://www.networkedplanet.com
> > http://www.twitter.com/nwplanet
> >
> >
>



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