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)
hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org
Mon Oct 5 11:46:07 CEST 2009
Dear all: I just found out that Kingsley Idehen released a major update of Virtuoso sponger cartridges that create and collate "virtual" meta-data for existing Web pages. See http://tr.im/bestbuygr2 for an example. The cool thing is - The data does not come from BestBuy directly; it is collected and collated on the fly from APIs and other resources (i.e. this is not yet the original BestBuy data). - It used the full level of detail of the GoodRelations ontology for e-commerce, http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations (not just 1 -2 properties). - It exposes both price information and technical features in GoodRelations. - If you request an XHTML version of the page, you get the meta-data in RDFa for further reuse and combination in novel scenarios. There are a few very minor issues with the data; we already provided respective feedback to Openlink SW. But all should be quick fixes. I am confident that this is a major step for a Web of Linked Data, because the same approach can bring unprecedented amounts of highly detailed GoodRelations data for existing Web content. Well done, Kingsley! Best Martin -- -------------------------------------------------------------- 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 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://tr.im/rAbN Talk at the Semantic Technology Conference 2009: "Semantic Web-based E-Commerce: The GoodRelations Ontology" http://tinyurl.com/semtech-hepp Talk at Overview article on Semantic Universe: http://tinyurl.com/goodrelations-universe 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! SearchMonkey http://tr.im/grcec09