[DDI-users] Schema.org, DSPL, DDI, etc.

[Stefan Kramer]

Of potential interest to anyone concerned with the development of overlapping/complementing/etc. metadata standards, how that plays into the discoverability of statistical/numeric (research) data on the web, etc. - this apparently being developed by three major search engine providers:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/introducing-schemaorg-search-engines.html
http://schema.org/docs/full.html
http://schema.org/docs/faq.html

while Google is *also* advocating DSPL: Dataset Publishing Language (http://code.google.com/apis/publicdata/).   "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from" (Andrew Tanenbaum) might come to mind if this was a claim to a standardization, but at least it's not that (http://schema.org/docs/faq.html#3).

There's a feedback form: http://schema.org/docs/feedback.html
And a discussion group: http://groups.google.com/group/schemaorg-discussion

Stefan Kramer
Research Data Management Librarian
stefan.kramer at cornell.edu
Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research (CISER)
391 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA