Re: Third sector services extension?

Hi Jen,

very interested in the field also. I'm based in Australia, which often
leads timezone difficulties with W3C activities; however, i have a few
ideas around the development of a new CG and would be v.interested in
chatting about it.

Timothy Holborn
http://twitter.com/webcivics
skype: sailing_digital


On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 at 18:14 Jen Williams <jen@networkedplanet.com> wrote:

> 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
>> >
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>> >
>> > Jen Williams
>> >
>> > Networked Planet Ltd
>> > http://www.networkedplanet.com
>> > http://www.twitter.com/nwplanet
>> >
>> >
>>
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