Amen to that!!
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Mia wrote:
> On 18 May 2015 at 14:57, Dan Brickley<
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>
>> A natural question now would be
>> whether to look into museum-specific changes or on larger package of GLAM /
>> cultural heritage work. I assume a bit of both will be useful, but wanted
>> to highlight the issue since cross-domain description is both schema.org's
>> biggest strength, and its biggest challenge.
>>
>
>
> When is the next release of schema.org due? (And can we get exhibitions in?)
>
> Museums seem to have a habit of trying to devise solutions that will allow
> for every possible exception (because each museum is a special butterfly)
> which means everything takes years and ends up being so complicated that
> the average web person takes one look and gives up so very few people
> actually use the schemas that do exist. (This is a massively broad
> generalisation, obviously.)
>
> I think there's more value in keeping a resource discovery schema like
> schema.org simple - we want to tell people that we have exhibitions,
> events, objects (CreativeWorks and others), knowledge about various aspects
> of our collections, and sometimes books, tickets and other things to sell.
> I'd be wary of trying to overload schema.org by piling on too much
> heritage-specific information, not least because we're already spoilt for
> existing mechanisms that seem to be under-used.
>
> Cheers, Mia
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