RDFa and schema.org in the wild

Library systems

Publishing structured data, out of the box, by default!

Evergreen

As of release 2.6.0 which came out this spring, Evergreen offers RDFa for:

• Bibliographic records
• Holdings
• Libraries (opening hours, contacts, locations, branch relationships)

Koha

As of release 3.14.0 which came out this spring, Koha offers RDFa for:

• Bibliographic records
• Holdings

Discovery layers / repositories

VuFind

As of release 2.2 which came out in January 2014, VuFind offers RDFa for:

• Bibliographic records
• Holdings

Blacklight

As of release 2.2 which came out in January, Blacklight offers microdata for:

• Bibliographic records

Islandora

As of release 7.x-1.3 which came out in March 2014, Islandora offers RDFa for:

• Bibliographic records

Beyond library systems

Bryn Mawr Classical Review

• Second oldest online scholarly journal in the humanities (1990)
• Currently implemented in SGML and Tcl (!)
• Proof of concept: reviews expressed as schema:Review

BMCR: schema:Review and schema:Book

<http://example.org/2014-01-02#review_text> a schema:Review ;
    schema:author <http://example.org/2014-01-02#review_author> ;
    schema:itemReviewed <http://example.org/2014-01-02#review_item1> ;
    schema:name "Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2014.01.02" ;
    schema:reviewBody """The temple dedicated to Castor and Pollux...""" .

<http://example.org/2014-01-02#review_author> a schema:Person ;
    schema:address "Royal Holloway, University of London" ;
    schema:familyName "Withycombe-Taperell" ;
    schema:givenName "Lily" ;
    schema:name "Lily Withycombe-Taperell" .

<http://example.org/2014-01-02#review_item1> a schema:Book ;
    schema:author "Claes B. Persson",
        "Jan Zahle",
        "Kjell Aage Nilson",
        "Siri Sande" ;
    schema:datePublished "2009" ;
    schema:isbn "9788882654979" ;
    schema:name "The Temple of Castor and Pollux III: ..." ;
    schema:numberOfPages "285" ;
    schema:publisher "\"L'Erma\" di Bretschneider" .

Bryn Mawr Classical Review

• Next steps:
  • Express authors, places as entities
  • Add external identifiers to reviewed works
• Collaboration with Karen Coyle and Camilla MacKay

code4lib journal

• Online journal; customized WordPress instance
• Patches to add:
  • Expressing articles as schema:Article
  • Authors as full Person entities with a customized Co-Authors Plus
  • (Soon): Issues listed as Periodical and PublicationIssue