why schema.org
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Lightening Talk at SWIB 2012 Cologne 28 November 2012TRANSCRIPT
Why ?
Richard WallisTechnology EvangelistOCLC@rjw
The world’s libraries. Connected.
Why ?
for libraries ?
Why
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Why Catalogue ?
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Why Catalogue ?
So people can find our stuff !
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Where are ?our users
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Where are ?our users
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Where are ?our users
are in our users
are in our users
are in
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our users
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our users
our data are not in
our data are not in
our data are not in
Why?
our data are not in
Why?does not understand:
Marc, ISBD, OAI-PMH, RDA, Z39.50, Onyx ....
happiness philosoph
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A broad vocabulary to
describe ‘things’ on the web
• June 2011: Launch of Schema.org
• June 2011: Launch of Schema.org
• June 2012: 7%-10% of crawled pages contain Schema.org markup
is
is
good enough ?
• For library data exchange
is
good enough ?
• For library data exchange - No
is
good enough ?
• For library data exchange
• For sharing library data with the world
- No
is
good enough ?
• For library data exchange
• For sharing library data with the world
- No
- Almost
http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex
• Short lived group
• Libraries, Publishers, Consumers, System Vendors, Linked Data, Standards Bodies
• Library is only one focus
libraries should use
libraries should use
to describe & link resources to the web
libraries should use
to describe & link resources to the web
applying other vocabularies and standards
at the same time asat the same time as
That’s
Why
Richard WallisTechnology EvangelistOCLC@rjw
The world’s libraries. Connected.
for libraries
That’s