Thanks Dan!
What's the best way to collect examples of venues with opening hours and events together? Culture24 has some event listings, as a start http://www.culture24.org.uk/home (and might be able to share info on other listings and any plans for linked open data).
And while Nick Poole has something in mind for an event, I thought I'd also share news of a relevant event from the library world (at risk of crossing the streams)...
IFLA 2014 Satellite Meeting
Linked Data in Libraries: Let's make it happen!
Organized by the Information Technology Section
with the Semantic Web Special Interest Group
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
14 August 2014, 9am - 5pm
http://ifla2014-satdata.bnf.fr/program.html
Cheers, Mia
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> On 11 Jun 2014, at 16:15, Dan Brickley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> Hi all. I work on schema.org for Google. Before that, I've been
> involved in various related RDF/W3C things going back to '98 or so
> when I got involved with W3C RDF schema effort, Semantic Web and all
> that. Part of my current role is to help improve schema.org through
> collaborations (mostly via the W3C Web schemas group). I really like
> the idea of helping make sure that schema.org works well for museums
> (and archives, galleries, libraries, ...).
>
> I would ask btw that you please try not to ask me for specifics about
> Google search ranking impact of this kind of markup, "Google juice"
> etc., as all I'll do is refer you to across to publicly available
> materials and fora (e.g.
> https://support.google.com/webmasters/?hl=en#topic=3309469 and
> nearby). I appreciate that museums and their Web teams have limited
> resources and want to make sure their markup efforts are likely to
> have impact, but suggest the best way we approach that is by starting
> with the simplest use cases, and by remembering that schema.org is
> also used by other companies and initiatives. I'm afraid I need to be
> scrupulously unhelpful when it comes to SEO-oriented concerns for
> specific sites; however I can help put together general examples and
> proposals around schema.org, and I'd be happy to do so.
>
> Beginning with basic contact info, opening hours, and moving on to
> events sounds like a good plan. Describing items in collections is
> also really interesting (and relates to the bib-extend work that has
> already been mentioned here); however it could be a much more complex
> undertaking.
>
> From a quick look today, trying to apply
> https://developers.google.com/webmasters/business-location-pages/schema.org-examples
> to opening hours for the British Museum and to Science Museum London,
> I'm reminded that schema.org has a number of places where improvements
> are needed (e.g. marking holiday exceptions). I'll collect those as we
> go along.
>
> Here's a quick before/after example based on British Museum homepage -
>
> before -
>
> <div>
> <h1><a href="/">British Museum</a></h1>
> <h2><a href="/visiting/admission_and_opening_times.aspx">
> Free, open daily<br />10.00–17.30<br /><span>Fridays until
> 20.30</span></a>
> </h2>
> </div>
>
> after -
>
> <div vocab="http://schema.org/" typeof="Museum">
> <h1><a property="url" href="/">British Museum</a></h1>
> <div><a href="/visiting/admission_and_opening_times.aspx">
> <span property="openingHours" content="Mo,Tu,We,Th,Sa,Su 10:00-17:30" />
> <span property="openingHours" content="Fri 10:30-20:30" />
> Free, open daily<br />10.00–17.30
> <br /><span>Fridays until 20.30</span></a>
> </div>
> </div>
>
> It would be good to ground any discussions in specific example sites.
> This was the first one I happened to look at - it would be great to
> have a few more real world examples, for opening hours, location,
> contact info, and for upcoming events, alongside the other topics
> already mentioned in this thread. If gaps emerge in schema.org's
> vocabulary we could put together a proposal to improve things...
>
> Does anyone have a handy list of example URLs for upcoming events in
> the museum world?
>
> Dan
>
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