Hi Mia
Very happy to offer all of Culture24's venue, event & exhibition listings up as examples - records include opening hours, prices etc.
I've been watching this discussion with interest and have put my colleague Phill (who looks after our APIs for me) in touch with Richard Light to work out how best Culture24 can support something useful around LOD. We're working on a couple of projects that combine venue & events listings with collection records so is ideal timing for us to explore this. I believe they're talking any day now so we'll keep you all posted.
Cheers, Anra
Anra Kennedy
Content & Partnerships Director
Culture24
> On 17 Jun 2014, at 09:27 am, "Mia" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> Sent from my handheld computing device
>
>> 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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