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Dear Nicolas, all:

Of course, you can also use GoodRelations in combination with eClassOWL 
for describing hotels and restaurants:


A good starting point is the tool for creating basic descriptions for 
any business at

http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/tools/goodrelations-annotator/

The tool only allows choosing from the first two hierarchy levels of 
eClassOWL, but you could replace the class IDs in the RDF/XML later on 
in order to make the description more specific.

A restaurant could use the eClassOWL 5.1.4 category 2520 (Food and 
services) or one of the following more specific classes:

25-20-01-00 -  Restaurant (service), [ eclass:C_AKG508003-gen ]
25-20-01-01 -  Restaurant with conventional service (service),  [ 
eclass:C_AKG509003-gen ]
25-20-01-02 -  Restaurant with self-service (service), [ 
eclass:C_AKG510003-gen ]
25-20-01-03 -  Cafe (service),   25-20-01-03 [ eclass:C_AKG511003-gen ]
25-20-02-01 -  Bar (service), [ eclass:C_AKG515003-gen ]
25-20-02-02 -  Bar and entertainment restaurant (service) [ 
eclass:C_AKG516003-gen ]
25-20-02-03 - Disco and dance restaurant (service)  [ 
eclass:C_AKG517003-gen ]

The proper gr:BusinessFunction would be gr:ProvideService, since eClass 
classifies restaurants as types of services. (When using an ontology 
that defines particular types of meals, then the proper business 
function would be "sell".)

A hotel could use the eClassOWL 5.1.4 category 2512 (Travel Management) 
or, better, one of the following more specific classes:

25-12-13-01 -  Hotel (travel management),  [ eclass:C_AKG314003-gen ]
25-12-13-02 -  Hotel garni (travel management),    [ 
eclass:C_AKG315003-gen ]
25-12-13-03 -  Inn (travel management),[ eclass:C_AKG316003-gen ]
25-12-13-04 -  Pension (travel management),  [ eclass:C_AKG317003-gen ]

The proper gr:BusinessFunction would be gr:ProvideService, too.

eclass: = http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/ontologies/eclass/5.1.4/#

Martin Hepp (UniBW) wrote:
> 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
>>
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>

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