On this topic, can I draw your attention to the W3C Community Group "Schema
Bib Extend" <http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/>, which I chair.
The mission of this group is to discuss and prepare proposal(s) for
extending Schema.org schemas for the improved representation of
bibliographic information markup and sharing. The group will seek consensus
around, and support for, proposal(s) to the W3C WebSchemas Group. This
Community Group will not, itself, produce technical specifications.
The WebSchemas Group mentioned is the group behind the extension and
enhancement of the Schema.org vocabulary that James uses in his example.
Schema.org is well used across the web - Google/Bing reported last year
that it had already appeared in 7%-10% of the pages they crawl on a daily
basis.
He is right to predict that its use will be important for many
organisations including libraries to register the fact that they have
resources with search engines and others on the web.
The Schema Bib Extend Group has 60+ members from individual and national
libraries, publishers, system vendors, standards groups etc. We meet
monthly on line recordings of which are available on the Group Wiki <
http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/wiki/Main_Page>.
As well as the potential and proposed Schema.org enhancements, you may find
the groups discussions and documentation useful in understanding the
potential.
New members always welcome.
~Richard.
On 17 May 2013 09:23, James Weinheimer <weinheimer.jim.l_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Apologies for cross-posting, but I thought these groups would be
> interested.
>
> I thought I would share this extremely interesting tool created by
> Google for cataloging materials that are online, the "Structured Data
> Markup Helper" at
>
> http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&topic=3070267&answer=3070230
>
> This tool allows the webmaster of a page to add structured data to a
> page on their site. You put in the URL of the page to code or the HTML
> itself, and then you can simply highlight the areas that you want to
> code. It is based on the schema.org microdata and is very simple to do.
> I find the tool a little clunky and very incomplete but it is brand new.
> I tried coding my latest podcast, using the "Article" template.
> http://blog.jweinheimer.net/2013/04/cataloging-matters-no-19-library.htmland
> found it fairly simple, although I was unable to highlight the article
> body for some reason. I'll probably use it on my next podcast.
>
> As of now, the tags you can add for articles are very incomplete
> http://schema.org/Article and even lacks the vital "keywords" tag. When
> you are done, you download the HTML to your machine as microdata or as
> JSON-LD, and then add it to your page. When you upload it to your
> server, your page is ready to be "ingested" by Google or some other
> semantic technology that uses microdata and added to their data base
> where it can be manipulated. When Google adds recipes to the templates,
> people will be able to use this tool to tag their recipes, and then
> everyone can work with them, as I discussed in my latest podcast.
>
> A raft of questions arise. Something like this may very well be the
> future interface of cataloging, and the question that arises in my own
> mind is: who will do the work? For this to work as it is intended, the
> metadata/microdata must be included in the page itself and is in a
> sense, a type of CIP. How would that work when a cataloger at another
> institution cataloged a page from, e.g. Ebsco? Also, could something
> like this be used to help trained catalogers do their work far more
> efficiently than they do today?
>
> One additional point: for information on JSON-LD (linked data), there is
> an excellent video that describes pretty simply what JSON-LD is, but
> what I think is much more valuable, it shows the mind of a web
> developer: what concerns them and what does not concern them.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vioCbTo3C-4 By
> the way, there are many who do not like JSON-LD but that should go
> without saying. :-)
>
> --
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> http://blog.jweinheimer.net/p/cataloging-matters-podcasts.html
>
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