[esip-semantictech] Working towards science-on-schema.org as an ESIP Standard/Guideline

[Adam Shepherd]

Hi folks,

I agree with Lewis that working towards an *ESIP-blessed output* (such 
as the Citation Guideline) is a good idea for the schema.org guidelines 
(https://github.com/ESIPFed/science-on-schema.org) that came out of 
EarthCube's Project 418. If an ESIP-blessed guideline is one of our 
committee's shared goals, then I offer a couple of strategic actions we 
might focus on to achieve that goal:

1) *Agreement on a governance framework* for making updates to the 
guidelines. (I know...as a developer, I hate this part too. But I 
believe even if we spent a few moments documenting how we will make 
decisions, update the guidelines, and procedures/workflows for 
discussing ideas, it can help us down the road as all of our 
capabilities to volunteer effort ebb and flow. We could keep it simple 
an adopt existing governance strategies, and alter it as we move 
forward.) A peek at the TWC Semantic Web Methodology 
(https://tw.rpi.edu/web/doc/TWC_SemanticWebMethodology) might help us 
think about how we plan to govern the guidelines.

2) *A review of**the current documentation* to ensure that what happened 
in a short, tiny vacuum of P418 is best for the community.

3) *Work towards improving how we communicate* these guidelines to the 
public. Bioschemas.org is a good example of what we could achieve for 
the geosciences as an external extension to schema.org. Having external 
extensions published with consistent URLs that follow the Best Practices 
for Publishing RDF Vocabularies (https://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-vocab-pub/) 
akin to what schema.org does (https://schema.org/docs/developers.html).

There are  more ideas of what to focus on, but thankfully we are a team 
and you all have those ideas on your minds. I look forward to hearing them!

Best, Adam

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On 1/17/19 4:21 PM, Mcgibbney, Lewis J (398M) via esip-semanticweb wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> At the end of this week’s meeting, I spoke with Adam, Doug (very 
> briefly) and Chuck and we ended up talking along the lines of creating 
> a formal ESIP Standard/Guideline from science-on-schema.org [0]. This 
> effort would essentially shadow what has been done for the ACDD [1] 
> and Software and Services Citation Guidelines and Examples.
>
> The purpose in doing this is as follows
>
>   * It gives the work at [0] */more/* credibility and ensures that the
>     content is peer reviewed by our community at large
>   * It brings together people who care about earth science extensions
>     to schema.org. There are actually quite a few of us out there…
>   * It would be a huge step towards data providers actually
>     implementing schema.org and associated extensions within their
>     discovery and access interfaces.
>   * It enables us to focus the community voice such that we can
>     approach commercial search providers with the aim of us continuing
>     the work which has been done to date in this space. If we
>     encourage and succeed in having search giants use this stuff, then
>     it is a HUGE win for us all.
>   * It enables us to go to the W3C Schema.org community group [3],
>     build relationships and create the path for us either proposing
>     [4] a hosted extension or external extension to the schema.org
>     project.
>
> @Beth, Doug, Adam, Chuck, etc. what are your thoughts? Anyone else 
> please chime in as well.
>
> Thanks folks,
>
> Lewis
>
> [0] https://github.com/ESIPFed/science-on-schema.org 
> <https://github.com/ESIPFed/science-on-schema.org>
>
> [1] 
> http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Attribute_Convention_for_Data_Discovery
>
> [2] https://bit.ly/2Cv6PD5 <https://bit.ly/2Cv6PD5>
>
> [3] https://www.w3.org/community/schemaorg/ 
> <https://www.w3.org/community/schemaorg/>
>
> [4] https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg#proposing-schemas 
> <https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg#proposing-schemas>
>
> Dr. Lewis John McGibbney Ph.D., B.Sc.
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