Re: Third sector services extension?

Tricia via Dan B also just pointed out this W3C community group
https://www.w3.org/community/humanservices but I don't think it's shown up
on the public message thread

Whilst my original vision was to also include a way of describing non-human
services (e.g. environmental etc) I'm definitely going to pop my head in
over there and see what's happening :-)

On 24 August 2016 at 09:25, Timothy Holborn <timothy.holborn@gmail.com>
wrote:

> yup.  I've got a slack group also but it's been poorly supported for a
> while...  (i've been busy...)
>
> Send me an invite ;)
>
> I've cc'd my other relevant emails.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tim.H.
>
> On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 at 18:22 Jen Williams <jen@networkedplanet.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> *Jen Williams*
>> *Networked Planet Ltd*
>> http://www.networkedplanet.com
>> http://www.twitter.com/nwplanet
>>
>


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