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
martin.hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org
Thu Dec 23 12:37:24 CET 2010
Hi Dieter, (I am copying the GoodRelations mailing list, because this question is likely of interest for a broader audience): On 23.12.2010, at 12:00, Dieter Fensel wrote: > Hi Martin, > > I was checking http://www.heppnetz.de/ontologies/goodrelations/v1#BusinessEntity > but I did not find 5-10 standard attributes for describing a company > such as: > > - name use gr:legalName or rdfs:label > - location use the W3C Geo vocab or vCard geo properties (we do not define properties already available in popular vocabs), see http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations_and_Geo_/_Location_Data > - uri for the URI of their web page, use foaf:page or foaf:homepage > - email address use vcard:email (or foaf) > - logo use foaf:depiction > - short abstract use rdfs:comment or gr:description (not shown in the doc, because it can be applied to any object.) > - business area typically done by modeling an offer, i.e. if you just have a lexical representation of it, just attach an rdfs:label to the gr:Offering You can also use the properties gr:hasISICv4 and gr:hasNAICS in combination with popular industry classification codes. > - major products or services see my other mail - typically done by modeling an offer, i.e. if you just have a lexical representation of it, just attach an rdfs:label to the gr:Offering. A more granular solution is to model gr:ProductOrServiceModel instances and link them to an offer via gr:includes and to link to the company via gr:hasManufacturer > - yearly turnover > this is outside the scope of GoodRelations, but there may be respective properties defined already in the DBPedia schema or in ontologies derived from XBRL. Best wishes Martin