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 18:41:15 CEST 2009
Hi Nicolas: As soon as any brick-and-mortar business or pub around the corner is publishing a one-page description of itself on the Web (or even gets listed in a database-driven Web business registry), this business is doing e-commerce. This is the mainstream definition of e-commerce in academia and practice: Using the Internet (or other open digital networks) for any stage in the business transaction - from search to transactions. There are of course different levels of e-commerce, from the the simple presentation of features to end-to-end transaction processing. But as soon as your business publishes its range of products or services on the Web (or even only in the Web of Data), this is e-commerce. And that is exactly what GoodRelations is designed for: improving search and data interoperability for any business that is offering anything on the Web. Hope that clarifies the issue. Best Martin Nicolas Raoul wrote: > Thank you for your answer! > I am glad to know I can use it, I will look into that. > > >>> 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 >> > > I am happy but confused. The GoodRelations webpage appears very > misleading to me: > 1) Motto is "GoodRelations The ontology for E-Commerce" > 2) "the representational means required for e-commerce on the Semantic Web" > 3) The general term used for businesses/etc is "Web resources" > 4) "describing the types of goods and terms and conditions of items > and services offered on the Web": it is not obvious that "on the Web" > refers to "describing" and not to "offered". > > The Semantic Web describes the world. The tiny pub near my place will > probably never do any e-commerce, but I want to describe it in the > Semantic Web. I am glad GoodRelations allows me to do it, but why does > it mentions e-commerce everywhere? > > Cheers, > Nicolas. > > _______________________________________________ > 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 -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ebusiness-unibw.org/pipermail/goodrelations/attachments/20090523/4c483295/attachment.html> -------------- 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/20090523/4c483295/attachment.vcf>