- From: Dawson, Laura <Laura.Dawson@bowker.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 09:42:17 -0500
- To: Richard Wallis <richard.wallis@oclc.org>
- CC: Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com>, "public-vocabs@w3.org" <public-vocabs@w3.org>, "Young,Jeff (OR)" <jyoung@oclc.org>, "Vizine-Goetz,Diane" <vizine@oclc.org>
Interlibrary loan as well On Dec 3, 2012, at 2:38 PM, "Richard Wallis" <richard.wallis@oclc.org> wrote: > Hi Dan, > > Liking the Actions/Activities proposal. > > Coming from the library world I would like to see some of the actions that > come from that world being represented in the emerging vocabulary proposals, > such as: loan, reserve (sometimes called 'place hold'), renew loan, return, > obtain licensed access to a resource (eg. Student on a campus to a journal > article). > > Although close to other actions like rent or buy, the actions for gaining > access to, often free at the point of use, resources via libraries, > university services, etc. is sufficiently different I believe to warrant > such representation. > > ~Richard. > > > > On 30/11/2012 19:23, "Dan Brickley" <danbri@google.com> wrote: > >> Hi folks >> >> A few things on the schema.org front: >> >> 1. Back in April there was some discussion towards an improved model >> for Actions/Activities. I have just uploaded a new work-in-progress >> document giving a first minimal version of a new approach, based on >> discussion amongst the schema.org partners. It is still in rough form >> but there should be enough to give a good impression of the thinking >> behind it. The draft describes some vocabulary structures that allow >> description of potential/possible future actions, as well as >> actions/activities that have occurred. While this touches on themes >> addressed by a variety of other efforts (including but not limited to >> RSS/Atom/ActivityStreams for past-tense 'activities'; Good Relations >> for commerce-related action opportunities; WebIntents, ...), we have >> focussed for now on describing a basic core structure that balances >> simplicity and expressiveness. >> >> A fairly short PDF document >> http://www.w3.org/wiki/images/7/79/Schema.orgActionsMinimaldraft.pdf >> is linked from http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/ActivityActions >> >> >> 2. The Audience proposal; based on the RDFa schema in >> https://bitbucket.org/elderos/schemaorg/src I've built a test version >> of the schema.org site that includes the Audience proposal (see >> http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/Audience ). The draft site is at >> http://sdo99a.appspot.com e.g. see http://sdo99a.appspot.com/Audience >> >> This is the second use of the HTML+RDFa+RDFS extension machinery I >> mentioned recently >> (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-lod/2012Nov/0011.html). >> More should follow - there are quite a few proposals pretty much >> ready, so I'll first put them up as individual test sites for review. >> >> >> 3. Class/Property >> >> There are several cases (including the above-mentioned Actions draft) >> where it is useful within schema.org to have a first class type >> representing the notion of 'Class', and of 'Property'. This is rather >> meta and while it is not something designed for mainstream webmasters >> to encounter, it will help with structuring and documenting the >> vocabulary. >> >> I have written up a proposal for adding these (and aliasing them to >> rdfs:Class, rdf:Property) at >> http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/SchemaDotOrgMetaSchema ...alongside >> a proposal to use schema.org/domainIncludes and >> schema.org/rangeIncludes in our RDFa representation of the schema. >> >> >> Comments on any / all of the above are welcomed; ideally in the >> WebSchemas area of the W3C wiki or here on public-vocabs. If you reply >> by mail please adjust the Subject line to match your topic... >> >> cheers, >> >> Dan > > >
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