Re: Please guide me

Also, want to make sure you all know about the work done on the

Accessibility Properties Crosswalk (schema.org, ONIX, MARC21 & UNIMARC)<https://w3c.github.io/publ-a11y/drafts/a11y-crosswalk-MARC/index.html>


Thanks

Charles

EOM



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From: Thad Guidry <thadguidry@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2024 5:59 PM
To: Faeze Tabatabai <faeze.tabatabai@gmail.com>
Cc: public-vocabs@w3.org <public-vocabs@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Please guide me

ONIX the book metadata exchange standard?

If that ONIX, then a lot of mapping or crosswalking could be done between the ONIX book vocabulary which is the ONIX codelists.  The codelists provide the semantic unambiguous meaning of narrow types and a few broader types.  Many or nearly all of the codes could also be mapped to something like Wikidata Entities, if someone hasn't done so already.

                    {
                        "CodeValue": "03",
                        "CodeDescription": "GTIN-13",
                        "CodeNotes": "GS1 Global Trade Item Number, formerly known as EAN article number (13 digits, without spaces or hyphens)",
                        "IssueNumber": 0,
                        "ModifiedNumber": 9
                    },

And even particular CodeListNumber's are really just narrow types also.  Like:
            {
                "CodeListNumber": 13,
                "CodeListDescription": "Collection identifier type",
                "IssueNumber": 0,

Which is a specific narrower type of the Schema.org/identifier<https://schema.org/identifier> property values.

You would definitely want to coordinate with someone at the OCLC (Like Carol Jean Godby) since they have done a lot of the mapping work against various services and formats (like ONIX to MARC21 etc back in the day.
2012-04.pdf (oclc.org)<https://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2012/2012-04.pdf> and recently Linked Data.


Besides the Onix codelists, the XML data elements of the ONIX specification could certainly also be mapped.  Quick Easy Examples:
<Contributor>
<PersonName>
<AlternativeName>
etc.

Where you store or how you create the maps in whatever format you desire probably has the biggest impact on society.  You'd want to choose a format that that any person or org could consume and apply to their own publishing database metadata, in order to make it really useful for the entire book industry.

Hope this gives you a starting primer and answered at least partially some of your questions.

Thad
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On Mon, Jan 8, 2024 at 4:34 PM Faeze Tabatabai <faeze.tabatabai@gmail.com<mailto:faeze.tabatabai@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi
I want to enrich the standard schema.org<http://schema.org> using the ONIX standard. For this purpose, how do you suggest I organize the tables? For example, is it better to do this based on the hierarchical structure of the schema itself (e.g., based on the properties of the Thing, creative works, persons, etc. in the schema.org<http://schema.org>) or based on the product information in ONIX or based on the specific blocks in ONIX? I would be grateful for your guidance.


Regards