From martin.hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org Wed Nov 11 16:17:13 2009 From: martin.hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org (Martin Hepp (UniBW)) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:17:13 +0100 Subject: [goodrelations] Pre-release: New GoodRelations Annotator - Simple RDFa snippets for copy-and-paste Message-ID: <4AFAD579.1050607@ebusiness-unibw.org> Dear all: We are in the process of finalizing an improved version of the GoodRelations Annotator Tool. With that tool, any company can quickly create a rich description of its line of business, opening hours, payment options, and the like. In the past, publishing the resulting RDF data proved to be too difficult for many users - or impossible due to the lack of access privileges. Now, based on our RDF2RDFa component, the resulting rich meta-data is turned into a simple 20+ lines RDFa snippet that can be easily copied into your main Web page, directly before the closing "" element. This will work for anybody who can see and access a page's source code, i.e. even in Content Management Systems or Wikis, etc. Please check it out and provide feedback: http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/tools/goodrelations-annotator/ By the way, once you have published respective meta-data, you can check the improved appearance in future search engines directly using the http://igoogr.appspot.com/ application. Simply enter search terms that bring up your respective page among the top five hits in Google, and you will see the effect of GoodRelations within seconds. Best wishes Martin Hepp -- -------------------------------------------------------------- martin hepp e-business & web science research group universitaet der bundeswehr muenchen e-mail: hepp at ebusiness-unibw.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 twitter: mfhepp Check out GoodRelations for E-Commerce on the Web of Linked Data! ================================================================= Webcast: http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/webcast/ Recipe for Yahoo SearchMonkey: http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations_and_Yahoo_SearchMonkey Talk at the Semantic Technology Conference 2009: "Semantic Web-based E-Commerce: The GoodRelations Ontology" http://www.slideshare.net/mhepp/semantic-webbased-ecommerce-the-goodrelations-ontology-1535287 Overview article on Semantic Universe: http://www.semanticuniverse.com/articles-semantic-web-based-e-commerce-webmasters-get-ready.html Project page: http://purl.org/goodrelations/ Resources for developers: http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations Tutorial materials: CEC'09 2009 Tutorial: The Web of Data for E-Commerce: A Hands-on Introduction to the GoodRelations Ontology, RDFa, and Yahoo! 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This will work for anybody who can see and access a page's source code,i.e. even in Content Management Systems or Wikis, etc. To our knowledge, this is the easiest approach of creating rich business descriptions for the Web of Linked Data. Please check it out! And please spread the word to any site owner in your address book: http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/tools/goodrelations-annotator/ A step-by-step tutorial of 13 minutes complements the tool and is available at http://vimeo.com/7583816 By the way, once you will have published respective meta-data, you can check the improved appearance in future search engines immediately using the http://igoogr.appspot.com/ application. Simply enter search terms that will bring up the respective page among the top five hits in Google, and you will see the effect of GoodRelations within seconds. Best wishes Martin Hepp -------------------------------------------------------------- martin hepp e-business & web science research group universitaet der bundeswehr muenchen e-mail: hepp at ebusiness-unibw.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 twitter: mfhepp Check out GoodRelations for E-Commerce on the Web of Linked Data! ================================================================= Project page: http://purl.org/goodrelations/ Resources for developers: http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations Webcasts: Overview - http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/webcast/ How-to - http://vimeo.com/7583816 Recipe for Yahoo SearchMonkey: http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations_and_Yahoo_SearchMonkey Talk at the Semantic Technology Conference 2009: "Semantic Web-based E-Commerce: The GoodRelations Ontology" http://www.slideshare.net/mhepp/semantic-webbased-ecommerce-the-goodrelations-ontology-1535287 Overview article on Semantic Universe: http://www.semanticuniverse.com/articles-semantic-web-based-e-commerce-webmasters-get-ready.html Tutorial materials: ISWC 2009 Tutorial: The Web of Data for E-Commerce in Brief: A Hands-on Introduction to the GoodRelations Ontology, RDFa, and Yahoo! SearchMonkey http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/Web_of_Data_for_E-Commerce_Tutorial_ISWC2009 From martin.hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org Wed Nov 18 19:52:55 2009 From: martin.hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org (Martin Hepp (UniBW)) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:52:55 +0100 Subject: [goodrelations] Join tomorrow's Semantic Web Meetup on GoodRelations in Zurich, Switzerland (Thursday, November 19, 2009, 6.00 p.m.) Message-ID: <4B044287.1010502@ebusiness-unibw.org> Dear all: If you happen to be in Zurich, Switzerland: Please be invited to tomorrow's Semantic Web Meetup on GoodRelations at 6.00 p.m. Info and RSVP ============ http://www.meetup.com/Zurich-Semantic-Web-Meetup-com/de/calendar/11831501/ Title === Real Business Impact for the Semantic Web: GoodRelations & RDFa for Deep Comparison Shopping on a Web Scale Abstract ======= In less than a year since its official release, the GoodRelations vocabulary for e-commerce has received huge interest from practitioners and researchers alike. GoodRelations has already been adopted by Yahoo, BestBuy, OpenLink Software, and other major players, and is supported by popular Web shop applications like osCommerce and the Joomla/Virtuemart combo. For the first time in history, we can expect a massive amount of real-world data expressed using a rich vocabulary compliant with the state-of-the art in W3C Semantic Web technology. In this talk, I will explain the technological foundations and the business implications of GoodRelations for e-business experts, CTOs and CIOs, Web developers, and basically anybody who wants to be found on the Web. I will also show details on the massive growth of real-world data, sketch business models for affiliate marketing, and give an overview of available on-line resources and tools for adding GoodRelations support to your business model. Location ======== Uni Z?rich, Institut f?r Bankenwesen (meeting Room on the ground floor) Plattenstrasse 32 Seminarraum 4 Zurich, Switzerland Schedule ======== 18:00 Socializing 18:30 Talk "Real Business Impact for the Semantic Web: GoodRelations & RDFa for Deep Comparison Shopping on a Web Scale" Prof. Dr. Martin Hepp, E-Business & Web Science Research Group, Universit?t der Bundeswehr M?nchen, Germany 19:30 Lessons Learned, Best Practices, and Discussion 20:30 Socializing / gemeinsames Nachtessen Speaker's Bio ============= Martin Hepp is a professor of general management and e-business at Universit?t der Bundeswehr M?nchen in Germany, where he heads the e-business and Web Science Research Group. Hepp holds a master's degree in business management and business information systems and a PhD in business information systems from the University of W?rzburg (Germany). His key research interest is in using structured, linked data on a Web scale for e-business, in particular matchmaking and product data reuse. As part of his research, he developed the GoodRelations and eClassOWL ontologies, now widely used for describing offers on the Web. Also, he was the organizer of more than fifteen workshops and conference tracks on conceptual modeling, Semantic Web topics, and information systems and member of more than sixty conference and workshop program committees, including ASWC, ESWC, IEEE CEC/EEE, and ECIS, and is an associate editor of IJSWIS. http://www.heppnetz.de Links to GoodRelations Materials and Tools ========================================== Project page: http://purl.org/goodrelations/ Resources for developers: http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations Webcasts: Overview - http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/webcast/ How-to - http://vimeo.com/7583816 Recipe for Yahoo SearchMonkey: http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations_and_Yahoo_SearchMonkey Talk at the Semantic Technology Conference 2009: "Semantic Web-based E-Commerce: The GoodRelations Ontology" http://www.slideshare.net/mhepp/semantic-webbased-ecommerce-the-goodrelations-ontology-1535287 Overview article on Semantic Universe: http://www.semanticuniverse.com/articles-semantic-web-based-e-commerce-webmasters-get-ready.html Tutorial materials: ISWC 2009 Tutorial: The Web of Data for E-Commerce in Brief: A Hands-on Introduction to the GoodRelations Ontology, RDFa, and Yahoo! SearchMonkey http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/Web_of_Data_for_E-Commerce_Tutorial_ISWC2009 -- -------------------------------------------------------------- martin hepp e-business & web science research group universitaet der bundeswehr muenchen e-mail: hepp at ebusiness-unibw.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 twitter: mfhepp From hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org Fri Nov 20 13:44:06 2009 From: hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org (Martin Hepp (UniBW)) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:44:06 +0100 Subject: [goodrelations] Video Recording of the Zurich Semantic Web Meetup on GoodRelations & E-Commerce Message-ID: <4B068F16.9010108@ebusiness-unibw.org> Dear all: Yesterday, I had the chance to explain the impact and usage of GoodRelations for businesses at the occasion of the Zurich Semantic Web Meetup, organized by Leo Keller. The video recording of my talk including the slides is now available online at: http://vimeo.com/7719902 Please forward this link to relevant people. Best wishes Martin Hepp -- -------------------------------------------------------------- martin hepp e-business & web science research group universitaet der bundeswehr muenchen e-mail: hepp at ebusiness-unibw.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 twitter: mfhepp Check out GoodRelations for E-Commerce on the Web of Linked Data! ================================================================= Project page: http://purl.org/goodrelations/ Resources for developers: http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations Webcasts: Overview - http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/webcast/ How-to - http://vimeo.com/7583816 Recipe for Yahoo SearchMonkey: http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations_and_Yahoo_SearchMonkey Talk at the Semantic Technology Conference 2009: "Semantic Web-based E-Commerce: The GoodRelations Ontology" http://www.slideshare.net/mhepp/semantic-webbased-ecommerce-the-goodrelations-ontology-1535287 Overview article on Semantic Universe: http://www.semanticuniverse.com/articles-semantic-web-based-e-commerce-webmasters-get-ready.html Tutorial materials: ISWC 2009 Tutorial: The Web of Data for E-Commerce in Brief: A Hands-on Introduction to the GoodRelations Ontology, RDFa, and Yahoo! SearchMonkey http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/Web_of_Data_for_E-Commerce_Tutorial_ISWC2009 From hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org Sat Nov 21 12:41:23 2009 From: hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org (Martin Hepp (UniBW)) Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:41:23 +0100 Subject: [goodrelations] Jon Udell's dedicates new podcast episode to the GoodRelations vocabulary and its potential Message-ID: <4B07D1E3.8060109@ebusiness-unibw.org> Dear all: Last week, Jon Udell invited me for an interview to his podcast series "Interviews With Innovators" [1], which is part of the IT Conversations network - the longest-running podcast on the planet. Is was an exceptional honor and joy for me to be given this opportunity of explaining the fundamental impact of our GoodRelations work on the way we all will be conducting business over the Web in the near future. Please listen to or download the episode from here: http://tr.im/jonudell Any feedback is very welcome! Best wishes Martin Hepp [1] http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/series/innovators.html -------------------------------------------------------------- martin hepp e-business & web science research group universitaet der bundeswehr muenchen e-mail: hepp at ebusiness-unibw.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 twitter: mfhepp Check out GoodRelations for E-Commerce on the Web of Linked Data! ================================================================= Project page: http://purl.org/goodrelations/ Resources for developers: http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations Webcasts: Overview - http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/webcast/ How-to - http://vimeo.com/7583816 Recipe for Yahoo SearchMonkey: http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations_and_Yahoo_SearchMonkey Talk at the Semantic Technology Conference 2009: "Semantic Web-based E-Commerce: The GoodRelations Ontology" http://www.slideshare.net/mhepp/semantic-webbased-ecommerce-the-goodrelations-ontology-1535287 Overview article on Semantic Universe: http://www.semanticuniverse.com/articles-semantic-web-based-e-commerce-webmasters-get-ready.html Tutorial materials: ISWC 2009 Tutorial: The Web of Data for E-Commerce in Brief: A Hands-on Introduction to the GoodRelations Ontology, RDFa, and Yahoo! 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