Issues arising at schema.org conversation

[Brian Ausland]

Bing, Google, Yahoo are intending to develop a given set of controlled
vocabularies for many topic areas that will be their primary means of
crawling and identifying and surfacing resources. There is a concern
that the vocabularies that are selected will create obscurity for
those repositories that find their vocabularies inconsistent with
schema.org's.
The collective Big 3 task force has assured all that there wil be a
process by which modifications, amendments, and additions can be made
over time, particularly when use-data shows popularity or traction for
competing vocabulary items or new ones all together from the
field...for instance if NASA finds an additional planet.
However, there was concern that when these 3 agents effectively adopt
an initial, albeit, open to modification, vocabulary...with the basis
of credible use and traction of a competing taxonomy as the impetus
for that change, is likely to not occur when the "3 big directors of
the main interstates" direct almost all traffic to the existing
resources based on the adopted or endorsed vocabularies. Seems like
structuring congruently to these endorsed vocabularies on some level
will aid in internal search and discovery and provide some initial
push for common data and meta-data documentation of learning objects
across collections.

[Joshua Marks]

All,

It is the LRMI group lead by Creative Commons and the AEP that is building and managing the extension of this learning resource section of the Schema.org tree. The process can be followed on the google group for LRMI. At this point, it is not expressing a controlled vocabulary, but rather a tag type classification similar to LOM, but simpler and focused on real use cases relating to search and discovery.

The actual vocabularies will be the responsibility of the content publisher, but suggested or default vocabularies are likely. Much to come, and the use case form I provided previously is needed to capture your requirements.

Best,

Joshua

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