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GoodRelations - The Web Vocabulary for E-Commerce

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GoodRelations is a standardized vocabulary for product, price, and company data that can (1) be embedded into existing static and dynamic Web pages and that (2) can be processed by other computers. This increases the visibility of your products and services in the latest generation of search engines, recommender systems, and other novel applications.

[goodrelations] Clarification between gr:amountOfThisGood and gr:hasInventoryLevel

Martin Hepp (UniBW) martin.hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org
Tue Jul 28 17:10:15 CEST 2009


Dear all:

Please keep in mind that there are two different GoodRelations 
properties that refer to quantities of items:

a) gr:amountOfThisGood and
b) gr:hasInventoryLevel

gr:amountOfThisGood is attached to gr:TypeAndQuantity nodes and 
indicates the quantity of the item included in the particular offer. In 
80% of the cases, this should be 1.0 ("1.0"^^xsd.float), because the 
price etc. is for one item. A value other than 1.0 is appropriate when 
you sell a bundle of items or use units of measurement other than 
"item/piece", e.g. selling

"100 tiles"
"500 g of butter", or
"1 camera + 2 memory sticks"

gr:hasInventoryLevel, on the contrary, can be used to indicate inventory 
levels. While gr:amountOfThisGood is an owl:DatatypeProperty, 
gr:hasInventoryLevel  is an owl:ObjectProperty with a range of 
gr:QuantitativeValueFloat, because this allows for using arbitrary units 
and also specifying ranges.

It can only be attached to instances of 
gr:ProductOrServicesSomeInstancesPlaceholder.

So if you want to indicate inventory levels, use gr: hasInventoryLevel 
in combination with an instance of gr:QuantitativeValueFloat.

*Example:* Assume you have 80 pieces of this controller card on stock. 
Then, use the following pattern:

*_N3:_*

foo:myProduct a gr:ProductOrServicesSomeInstancesPlaceholder;
   rdfs:label "Personal SCSI 16-bit SCSI Controller"@en ;
   gr:hasEAN_UCC-13 "00010363780"^^xsd:string ;
   gr:hasManufacturer 
<http://www.heppnetz.de/searchmonkey/product.html#heppcomputer> ;
   rdfs:comment "This low-cost, high-performance SCSI controller allows 
you to connect up to seven professional mass-storage devices to your 
computer."@en ;
   rdfs:seeAlso <http://www.heppnetz.de/searchmonkey/product.html>, 
<http://www.heppnetz.de/searchmonkey/pscsi.jpg> ;
   foaf:depiction <http://www.heppnetz.de/searchmonkey/pscsi.jpg> ;
*   gr:hasInventoryLevel
       [ a gr:QuantitativeValueFoat;
         gr:hasValueFloat "80"^^xsd:float ;
         gr:hasUnitOfMeasurement "C62"^^xsd:string
       ] ;*
.

RDFa:

<div typeof="gr:ProductOrServicesSomeInstancesPlaceholder" 
about="#myProduct">
     Product Name:
     <span property="rdfs:label">Personal SCSI 16-bit SCSI Controller</span>
     <br/>Description:
     <span property="rdfs:comment">This low-cost, high-performance SCSI 
controller allows you to connect up to
     seven professional mass-storage devices to your computer.</span><br/>
     EAN/UPC code:
     <span property="gr:hasEAN_UCC-13" 
datatype="xsd:string">00010363780</span><br/>
     <span rel="rdfs:seeAlso media:image foaf:depiction">
          <img src="http://www.heppnetz.de/searchmonkey/pscsi.jpg" 
alt="Product Image"/>
     </span>
*     <span rel="gr:hasInventoryLevel>
          <span typeof="gr:QuantitativeValueFoat>
               <span property="gr:hasValueFloat" 
datatype="xsd:float">80</span> items on stock.
                <span property="hasUnitOfMeasurement" 
datatype="xsd:string" content="C62"/>
          </span>
    </span>*
</div>


Best

Martin Hepp

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