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On the holdings front also see the work being done on a holding ontology at https://github.com/dini-ag-kim/holding-ontology (and related mailing list http://lists.d-nb.de/mailman/listinfo/dini-ag-kim-bestandsdaten) - discussion all in English Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: [log in to unmask] Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 23 Jul 2013, at 21:14, Dan Scott <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi Laura: > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Laura Krier <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > <snip> > >> The area where I'm most involved right now is in releasing library holdings >> metadata openly on the web, in discoverable and re-usable forms. It's >> amazing to me that we still don't do this. Imagine the things that could be >> created by users and software developers if they had access to information >> about which libraries hold which resources. > > I'm really interested in your efforts on this front, and where this > work is taking place, as that's what I'm trying to do as part of my > participation in the W3C Schema Bib Extend Community Group at > http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/ > > See the thread starting around > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-schemabibex/2013Jul/0068.html > where we're trying to work out how best to surface library holdings in > schema.org structured data, with one effort focusing on reusing the > "Offer" class. There are many open questions, of course, but one of > the end goals (at least for me) is to get the holdings into a place > where regular people are most likely to find them: in search results > served up by search engines like Google and Bing. > > If you're not involved in the W3C community group, maybe you should > be! And it would be great if you could point out where your work is > taking place so that we can combine forces. > > Dan