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
Mon Oct 19 16:13:56 CEST 2009
Dear Dave: Dave Caroline wrote: > I wish researchers looked into reality of their example items > > eg TVSet: hasScreenSize, hasVideoInput, hasOperatingVoltage > > screen size has X and Y dimensions as well as diagonal the aspect > ratio depends on standard 4:3 or one of the wide screen formats > > Video input can and is often a multiple choice (digital,HDMI, > analogue, RGB, Scart) > > Operating voltage can be a country specific single voltage or a range > of voltages, AC or DC (for a portable) > and the AC may be 50 or 60 Hz or even 400 Hz for an in aircraft TV > > Dave Caroline > > GoodRelations provides an upper ontology for types of products and services, and their features. It is not an ontology for products and services. If you are looking for compatible ontologies for products and services, please check a) eClassOWL. It defines >30,000 classes for products and >5,000 properties of exactly the specificity you desire. b) http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/ontologies/consumerelectronics/v1 c) http://www.freeclass.eu/freeclass_v1 See http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations#Vocabularies_for_Products_and_Services_Types_and_Features for a current list and http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/Own_GoodRelations_Vocabularies for background information. The properties used in the primer / example are "toy" by purpose in order to explain the generic principle. The primer states this clearly: "In the following, we will use a toy ontology available at http://www.heppnetz.de/ontologies/examples/toy for reasons of simplicity. That ontology defines four types of products, namely the classes. ..." I can understand some annoyance by practitioners that early Semantic Web research did not live up to its bold statements. But frankly, I am the wrong audience for such complaints. I have been fighting for more than six years to develop practical solutions and applications of the Semantic Web vision in e-commerce. 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! SearchMonkey http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/Web_of_Data_for_E-Commerce_Tutorial_IEEE_CEC%2709 -------------- 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/20091019/0d4b89f3/attachment.vcf>