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Martin Hepp (UniBW) wrote:
> Hi Sherman:
> Thanks - Briefly: I think we should integrate the efforts. Basically, 
> it is simple to model wants and needs in GoodRelations. You just use a 
> gr:Offering with the gr:BusinessFunction gr:Sell - this goes with the 
> batteries supplied in the current version of GoodRelations (even 
> though I never thought of this application before).
>
> Example: I am interested in buying one TV set with a screen size of at 
> least 30 centimeters, and i am not interested in offers more expensive 
> than 200 euros:
>
> foo refers to the namespace of the example
> pcs refers to the namespace of a fictuous ontology for product types 
> and features (e.g. eclassOWL or others)
>
> foo:martinhepp
>     a gr:BusinessEntity;
>     gr:offers foo:myWant1.
>
> foo:myWant1
>       a gr:Offering ;
>       gr:hasBusinessFunction gr:Buy;
>       gr:hasPriceSpecification foo:UnitPriceSpecification_1 ;
>       gr:includesObject foo:TypeAndQuantityNode_1 .
>
> foo:myDreamTVSet
>       a pcs:TVSet , gr:ProductOrServiceSomeInstancesPlaceholder;
>       pcs:hasScreenSize foo:QuantitativeValueFloat_1.
>
> foo:QuantitativeValueFloat_1
>       a gr:QuantitativeValueFloat ;
>       gr:hasUnitOfMeasurement "CMT"^^xsd:string ;
>       gr:hasMinValueFloat "30.0"^^xsd:float .
>
> foo:TypeAndQuantityNode_1
>       a gr:TypeAndQuantityNode ;
>       gr:amountOfThisGood "1.0"^^xsd:float ;
>       gr:hasUnitOfMeasurement "C62"@en ;
>       gr:typeOfGood foo:myDreamTVSet .
>
> foo:UnitPriceSpecification_1
>       a gr:UnitPriceSpecification ;
>       gr:hasCurrency "EUR"^^xsd:string ;
>       gr:hasMaxCurrencyValue "200.0"^^xsd:float ;
>       gr:hasUnitOfMeasurement "C62"^^xsd:string .
>
>
> In order to make this a bit more beautiful an powerful, I could 
> introduce a new objectproperty "seeks" that is used instead of 
> "offers" to link between a business entity and an offering.
>
>
> That would be a minimal change to the vocabulary but would allow to 
> reverse all BusinessFunctions (e.g. seeks maintance, seeks disposal, etc."
>
> What do you think?
Neat!

Kingsley
>
> Best
> Martin
>
>
>
>
> Sherman Monroe wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> I've considering the GoodRelations ontology for overdogg.com wants and
>> needs. Looking at the GR spec [1], I am not able to see anything classes or
>> properties for describing wants/needs. I created the Things You Want and
>> Need (TIWAN) ontology[2] to model wants/needs as well as reverse
>> auction-style marketplace. I would like to know if a merge between the two
>> would be something that you would be interested in. I can definitely see
>> where GR plugs into TIWAN, e.g. to describe providers/suppliers. Is
>> wants/needs within the scope of GR, or should I continue using TIWAN with
>> tie-ins to GR?
>>
>> [1] http://www.heppnetz.de/ontologies/goodrelations/v1#
>> [2] http://overdogg.com/ontology/tiwan/
>>
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> Talk at the Semantic Technology Conference 2009: 
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>
> Tool for registering your business:
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>
> Overview article on Semantic Universe:
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>
> Project page and resources for developers:
> http://purl.org/goodrelations/
>
> Tutorial materials:
> Tutorial at ESWC 2009: The Web of Data for E-Commerce in One Day: A Hands-on Introduction to the GoodRelations Ontology, RDFa, and Yahoo! SearchMonkey
>
> http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations_Tutorial_ESWC2009
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