Re: Third sector services extension?

Hi Tim
Happy to set up a skype at some point in the near future. Enthusiastic
people always welcome! For now would you like to join our Slack team?
http://nfpschema.slack.com

We're at the very early stages and it would be great to have you on board
:-)

On 24 August 2016 at 09:18, Timothy Holborn <timothy.holborn@gmail.com>
wrote:

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


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