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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