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.
Martin Hepp (UniBW)
martin.hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org
Sat May 23 13:46:43 CEST 2009
Hi Nicholas, Nicolas Raoul wrote: > Dear all, > > I want to publish data from Wikitravel.org (like DBpedia does for > Wikipedia) so I need an ontology to describe tourism information > (hotels, restaurants, spots) with details (address, phone, prices, > services, business hours). I was not able to find any, so far. > > > Am I right that currently GoodRelations is only for e-commerce and > does not apply to such businesses as hotels, restaurants, and > brick-and-mortar shops? > No, GoodRelations can be used (and is intended to be used) for exactly those scenarios: You can use it to express that you - rent cars - sell pizzas (or meals in general) - sell boats For brick-and-mortar-businesses, GoodRelations can be used exactly the same way as for pure online shops. You can specify opening hours, shop locations (e.g. for restaurant chains) etc. For hotels and restaurants: There are specializations based on GoodRelations for the Austrian e-tourism sector available at http://www.ebsemantics.net/doc/ restaurants: http://www.ebsemantics.net/doc/gastro.owl accommodations: http://www.ebsemantics.net/doc/acco.owl But you can basically use either plain GoodRelations or GoodRelations in combination with a suitable hotel or meals ontology for specifying touristic offers. If you have any data samples or, better, real-world data sources, we can help you with the respective modeling. As a first starting point, I recommend looking at gr:BusinessFunctions for Sell and Lease. Best Martin PS: A work-in-progress Web page for the tourism domain is at http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations_Examples#Accommodation_and_Hotel_Rooms > I am sure you have surveyed existing commerce ontologies, so I am > begging for your expertise: what ontologies exist to describe hotels > and restaurants? > > Thank you very much, > Nicolas Raoul > http://nrw.free.fr > > _______________________________________________ > goodrelations mailing list > goodrelations at ebusiness-unibw.org > http://ebusiness-unibw.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/goodrelations > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------- martin hepp e-business & web science research group universitaet der bundeswehr muenchen e-mail: mhepp at computer.org phone: +49-(0)89-6004-4217 fax: +49-(0)89-6004-4620 www: http://www.unibw.de/ebusiness/ (group) http://www.heppnetz.de/ (personal) skype: mfhepp Check out the GoodRelations vocabulary for E-Commerce on the Web of Data! ======================================================================== Webcast explaining the Web of Data for E-Commerce: ------------------------------------------------- http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/webcast/ Tool for registering your business: ---------------------------------- http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/tools/goodrelations-annotator/ Overview article on Semantic Universe: ------------------------------------- http://www.semanticuniverse.com/articles-semantic-web-based-e-commerce-webmasters-get-ready.html Project page and resources for developers: ----------------------------------------- http://purl.org/goodrelations/ Upcoming events: --------------- Full-day 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.eswc2009.org/program-menu/tutorials/70 Talk at the Semantic Technology Conference 2009: Semantic Web-based E-Commerce: The GoodRelations Ontology http://www.semantic-conference.com/session/1881/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: martin_hepp.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 308 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ebusiness-unibw.org/pipermail/goodrelations/attachments/20090523/4bb8638e/attachment.vcf>