Hi Dan and all,
I work for a French cultural institution called la Cité de la musique,
soon to be become la Philharmonie de Paris.
Among our activities we have a Museum : "Le musée de la musique".
I'm also working with the French Ministry of Culture to elaborate a
national
strategy regarding the use of semantic web technology in the domain
of cultural metadata, where I'm specifically in charge of "upcoming
cultural events" description.
Regarding events that can be organized by Museums, here is the beginning of
a list
( please feel free to complete it !)
* exhibition : schema.org/VisualArtsEvent ? ( the definition is not clear
to me )
http://saison-2015.philharmoniedeparis.fr/activites/exposition/14731-david-bowie
* guided tours
http://www.citedelamusique.fr/francais/activite/visite-decouverte/13624-a-la-decouverte-du-musee
* conference
http://saison-2015.philharmoniedeparis.fr/activites/conference/14672-pierre-boulez
* workshop : schema.org/EducationEvent ?
http://saison-2015.philharmoniedeparis.fr/activites/visite-atelier-du-musee/14481-ouvre-grand-tes-oreilles
* Concert : schema.org/MusicEvent
http://saison-2015.philharmoniedeparis.fr/activites/concert-promenade-au-musee/14390-hommage-adolphe-sax
Occasionally :
* broadcast : schema.org/BroadcastEvent
I'd be very glad to be part of the discussion on items description.
We recently launched a web site with the description of 50k musical
instruments hold by 20 Museums from many countries (
www.mimo-international.com )
Best,
Rodolphe
2014-06-11 17:15 GMT+02:00 Dan Brickley <
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> [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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