Re: External Extension Library Help

Hi Russell,

An external extension and how it is designed, created and managed is, by
its nature, under the control of those creating it.

It could be a vocabulary that depends on the Schema.org vocabulary to
exist, such as BiblioGraph.net, which provides a few extra terms (all
subtypes or sub properties of Schema.org terms) needed by the developers.

Alternatively it could be a fully fledged standalone vocabulary, such as GS1
<http://gs1.org/voc/>, which includes in the definition of its terms their
relation to Schema.org terms.  For example gs1:Offer
<http://gs1.org/voc/Offer> is defined as an exact match to schema:Offer
<http://schema.org/Offer>.

There are various options as to how such a vocabulary definition is made
available for public use.  From a single web page, through taking a fork of
the Github code <https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg> for Schema.org, to
creating a new web application specifically for the purpose.

For someone trying to get their head around how to approach this I would
suggest reading of my blog series *Evolving Schema.org in Practice:* Parts 1
<http://dataliberate.com/2016/02/10/evolving-schema-org-in-practice-pt1-the-bits-and-pieces/>,
2
<http://dataliberate.com/2016/02/25/evolving-schema-org-in-practice-pt2-working-within-the-vocabulary/>,
3
<http://dataliberate.com/2016/03/01/evolving-schema-org-in-practice-pt3-choosing-where-to-extend/>,
which expands not only on the technicalities but also on some of the
thought processes needed.  This should help with deciding if an external
extension is needed, or proposals for Schema.org itself would help, or even
if creative use of what is already in place would satisfy your need.

Hope this helps you.

If you think I could be of more detailed help, drop me a direct line.

~Richard

Richard Wallis
Founder, Data Liberate
richard.wallis@datalibeate.com
http://dataliberate.com
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On 17 June 2016 at 19:14, Russell Pruitt <russell.pruitt@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
> I had posed this question about a month ago but didn't get any responses.
> How do I go about setting up an external library specific to our product
> catalogs attributes? I need a much more granular library than what
> schema.org offer with it's generic (by design) item types.
>
> This is the most detail I can find around the topic on the schema.org
> site:
>
> External Extensions
>
> Sometimes there might be a need for a third party (such as an app
> developer) to create extensions specific to their application. For example,
> Pinterest might want to extend the schema.org concept of ‘Sharing’ with
> ‘Pinning’. In such a case, they can create schema.pinterest.com and put
> up their extensions, specifying how it links with core schema.org. We
> will refer to these as external extensions.
>
> There are also cases where a third party might want to host a broadly
> applicable extension themselves. In such cases, the extension may go
> through the kind of feedback process that reviewed extensions go through,
> but can be hosted on the third party's site.
>
> I really need some help with this as I am changing roles and will need to
> hand off this project in the near future. Any help or guidance is
> incredibly appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
> Russell
>
> --
> Russell Pruitt
>
> The creative thinker is flexible and adaptable and prepared to rearrange
> his thinking.
> - A.J. Cropley
>