From martin.hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org Tue Nov 1 15:23:48 2011 From: martin.hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org (Martin Hepp) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 15:23:48 +0100 Subject: [goodrelations] One of Germany's leading mail order pharmacies adds GoodRelations markup in RDFa References: <4195F8A7-7895-469A-A986-1CA6B2BA2A34@ebusiness-unibw.org> Message-ID: Dear all: I am happy to share with you the news that www.arzneimittel.de, one of Germany's leading mail order pharmacies, with ca. 250.000 items on sale, has just turned on comprehensive GoodRelations support in RDFa. Example: http://www.arzneimittel.de/guenstige-medikamente/doppelherz-seefischoel-omega-3-800mg-kapseln-6583669.html Same in the Google Rich Snippet Testing Tool: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=http://www.arzneimittel.de/guenstige-medikamente/doppelherz-seefischoel-omega-3-800mg-kapseln-6583669.html A sitemap index is at http://www.arzneimittel.de/sitemap_index.xml Should you crawl this site for testing your RDFa-based application, please do so politely (i.e. with moderate traffic!). Best 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 Main Page: http://purl.org/goodrelations/ From martin.hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org Thu Nov 3 17:50:44 2011 From: martin.hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org (Martin Hepp) Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 17:50:44 +0100 Subject: [goodrelations] ANN: Multi-syntax Markup Translator: http://rdf-translator.appspot.com/ Message-ID: <9B6ACB3B-6256-41D0-8DDF-E52699954043@ebusiness-unibw.org> Dear all: Alex Stolz, a PhD student in our group, has just released a nice multi-syntax data translation tool http://rdf-translator.appspot.com/ that can translate between * RDFa, * Microdata, * RDF/XML, * Turtle, * NTriples, * Trix, and * JSON. This service is built on top of RDFLib 3.1.0. For the translation between microdata and the other file formats it is using Ed Summers' microdata plugin and for RDF/JSON the plugin as available in the RDFLib add-on package RDFExtras. The source code of this tool is available under a LPGL license. Acknowledgements The work on RDF Translator has been supported by the German Federal Ministry of Research (BMBF) by a grant under the KMU Innovativ program as part of the Intelligent Match project (FKZ 01IS10022B). A huge thanks to Alex Stolz for this useful tool! 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 Main Page: http://purl.org/goodrelations/ From martin.hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org Fri Nov 4 09:15:00 2011 From: martin.hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org (Martin Hepp) Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 09:15:00 +0100 Subject: [goodrelations] Modeling quantities of goods in GoodRelations References: Message-ID: <7F0CA78E-F807-4426-8F96-5ADC9ED2ADE4@ebusiness-unibw.org> Dear all: I was recently asked on how to model quantities of goods in GoodRelations, e.g. "10 g of salt" or "1 liter of Bordeaux red wine". There are two different ways of modeling this, and both are supported by GoodRelations: 1. You can say that you offer exactly 10g of salt or 1 l of red wine, but maybe accept this offer multiple times. 2. You can say that you offer salt or red wine and that the price is USD 1 / 10 g or 1 l. In case 1, you model the quantity *to which the offer refers* using TypeAndQuantityNode in combination with gr:SomeItems In case 2, you model it using gr:hasUnitOfMeasurement on the gr:UnitPriceSpecification. Approach 2 does work only if the price is related to a standard unit (C62, INH, LTR, GRM, ...). So you can say that the price is 1 USD / liter (unit code: LTR), but this way, you cannot say that it is 1 USD / 10 gram. If you want to say something like USD1 / 10 g, you must - create a gr:SomeItems node representing some salt (or any other type of good), - add this to a gr:Offering with gr:includesObject and a gr:TypeAndQuantityNode with 10 g as the quantity - set the price to 1 USD per 1 C62 of this offer (because one piece of this gr:SomeItems instance means 10 g). Examples in Turtle syntax: # 1 l of Bordeaux red wine for 1 USD/liter foo:offer a gr:Offering; gr:hasBusinessFunction gr:Sell; gr:includesObject [ a gr:TypeAndQuantityNode; gr:amountOfThisGood "1"^^xsd:float; gr:hasUnitOfMeasurement "C62"^^xsd:string; gr:typeOfGood foo:redwine ]; gr:hasPriceSpecification [ a gr:UnitPriceSpecification; gr:hasCurrency "USD"^^xsd:string; gr:hasCurrencyValue "1.00"^^xsd:float; gr:validThrough "2012-12-31T23:59:59Z"^^xsd:dateTime; gr:hasUnitOfMeasurement "LTR"^^xsd:string ]. # This represents an arbitrary amount of red wine: foo:redwine a gr:SomeItems, ; gr:name "ACME Bordeaux Red Wine - dry and tasty"@en. # Table salt for 1 USD / 10 g foo:offer a gr:Offering; gr:hasBusinessFunction gr:Sell; gr:includesObject [ a gr:TypeAndQuantityNode; gr:amountOfThisGood "10"^^xsd:float; gr:hasUnitOfMeasurement "GRM"^^xsd:string; gr:typeOfGood foo:salt ]; gr:hasPriceSpecification [ a gr:UnitPriceSpecification; gr:hasCurrency "USD"^^xsd:string; gr:hasCurrencyValue "1.00"^^xsd:float; gr:validThrough "2012-12-31T23:59:59Z"^^xsd:dateTime; gr:hasUnitOfMeasurement "C62"^^xsd:string ]. # This represents an arbitrary amount of table salt: foo:redwine a gr:SomeItems, ; gr:name "ACME Table Salt - clear and salty"@en. Note: You can convert those to others syntaxes with - http://rdf-translator.appspot.com/ - http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/tools/rdf2rdfa/ - http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/tools/rdf2microdata/ (experimental) Best wishes Martin Hepp From martin.hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org Fri Nov 4 10:23:37 2011 From: martin.hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org (Martin Hepp) Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 10:23:37 +0100 Subject: [goodrelations] GoodRelations in the Supply Chain Message-ID: <9AD712F0-C97C-4152-B71C-43B4CF889235@ebusiness-unibw.org> Dear all, I have been asked by a colleague on usages of GoodRelations for internal supply chains. If anybody of you is using GoodRelations for managing product or offer data inside internal systems, I would be eager to learn of your use cases. GoodRelations is designed to support e-commerce data interchange 1. independently from the vertical industry, e.g. for consumer electronics, real estate, labor, services, automotive, food, etc. and 2. for all stages of the supply chain, from sourcing raw materials to retail, after-sales-service, and disposal. So you can e.g. use GoodRelations as a general schema for harmonizing product model master data, inventory levels across warehouses, internal services, or SCM with core partners. Again: If you have any use cases that you are willing to share, please do so. Best wishes Martin Hepp From hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org Tue Nov 8 13:15:54 2011 From: hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org (Martin Hepp) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 13:15:54 +0100 Subject: [goodrelations] Nov 15, 2011: Semantic Web Meetup on GoodRelations & Schema.org at Google Munich Message-ID: <7AAAEAE0-5ADC-40EE-808E-95A33F705654@ebusiness-unibw.org> Dear all: On November 15, 2011, we will organize a Meetup "Semantic Web Meets Business", talking about GoodRelations, schema.org, and the use of structured Web data for businesses in general. The event will take place in the Google Germany offices in Munich (Dienerstrasse 12, Munich). Please join us! More info and RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/Munchen-Semantic-Web-Meetup/events/40385012/ Best 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 Main Page: http://purl.org/goodrelations/ From martin.hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org Mon Nov 14 18:44:09 2011 From: martin.hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org (Martin Hepp) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:44:09 +0100 Subject: [goodrelations] OXID eShop announces plans to support GoodRelations in 4.6.0 release Message-ID: Dear all: OXID eSales AG, the makes of the popular e-commerce package OXID eShop has officially announced plans to support GoodRelations in RDFa in the upcoming 4.6.0 release: http://wiki.oxidforge.org/Roadmap/4.6.0 This will make semantic SEO with GoodRelations drastically simpler and much more effective for shops based on this package. Best wishes Martin Hepp From martin.hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org Wed Nov 16 19:11:01 2011 From: martin.hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org (Martin Hepp) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:11:01 +0100 Subject: [goodrelations] GoodRelations / schema.org talk in Munich Message-ID: <2532B887-5B32-434B-94CF-B9CBC3C2971B@ebusiness-unibw.org> Hi all, I just posted the video recording of my yesterday's Meetup talk at Google Munich: http://vimeo.com/32213271 Just in case you missed the event and want to watch the presentation. Note that there is a substantial overlap with my other recent talks on the topic. A more polished talk is e.g. this one: http://vimeo.com/29600112 Martin Hepp On Nov 9, 2011, at 12:19 PM, Lorenzo De Tomasi wrote: >> On November 15, 2011, we will organize a Meetup "Semantic Web Meets Business", talking about GoodRelations, >> schema.org, and the use of structured Web data for businesses in general. The event will take place in the Google >> Germany offices in Munich (Dienerstrasse 12, Munich). Please join us! From martin.hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org Wed Nov 16 21:36:03 2011 From: martin.hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org (Martin Hepp) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:36:03 +0100 Subject: [goodrelations] GoodRelations Support in International Google Versions Message-ID: Dear all: I have often been asked in which countries Google Rich Snippets will show when you are using GoodRelations in RDFa syntax in your site. As of today, I can confirm this for google.com google.de google.co.uk google.ru So you can see that the number of countries with GoodRelations support is already much bigger than what Google officially communicates. Google does not seem to show rich snippets for other countries yet. There are a few things to note in here: 1. The fact that Google is not yet showing rich snippets in your country does not mean that respective markup is ignored, because a) it also sends relevance signals to Google and b) it may already been cached so that rich snippets can be shown immediately once a new country is added to the list. If you add rich markup only at the moment support for your country is officially announced, it may take 8 - 10 weeks for your site to be reindexed completely. 2. Depending on your site relevance and the quality of your sitemap.xml, it will take anything between a few weeks and several months for rich snippets to show for your page. So don't be frustrated if you add the markup and nothing happens for a few weeks. Just be patient! If the Google validator [1] confirms the markup, you are all set. 3. Google uses a component to judge whether a snippet should be shown for your page or not. While they do not reveal details on this component, the general experience is that highly ranked / highly reputable sites will show rich snippets more often than rather unknown or low-ranked sites. Attached, find a few screenshots that show rich snippets based on GoodRelations for the query "Rachael Ray Enamel on Steel 16.75x13.25-in. Roaster with Rack: Orange" in various countries. I also attach one example of a country without support at this moment (Spain). Best wishes Martin Hepp [1] http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=http://www.rachaelraystore.com/Product/detail/Rachael-Ray-Enamel-on-Steel-16-75x13-25-in-Roaster-with-Rack-Orange/300417 -------------------------------------------------------- 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 Main Page: http://purl.org/goodrelations/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: google-de.png Type: image/png Size: 89765 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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This allows you - to use GoodRelations in microdata markup patterns, - to use GoodRelations to extend schema.org markup patterns in RDFa and microdata, and - to consume GoodRelations data via schema.org classes and vice versa (partly, at least at the class levels) We also added roughly 660 detailed examples in RDFa, microdata, and Turtle syntax. For a full changelog, see http://wiki.goodrelations-vocabulary.org/Changelog/20111001 For the new microdata processing rules, see http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1.html#microdata For additional information on using GoodRelations in microdata syntax, see http://wiki.goodrelations-vocabulary.org/Microdata For information on using GoodRelations in combination with schema.org, see http://wiki.goodrelations-vocabulary.org/GoodRelations_and_schema.org New elements added in this release are ? gr:vatID property for indicating the VAT ID of the gr:BusinessEntity. ? gr:taxID property for indicating the Tax / Fiscal ID of the gr:BusinessEntity. ? gr:License for modeling licenses as business functions (e.g. for stock photos or software). The examples section is considered work-in-progress, so expect regular extensions and improvements without official service release announcements in the future. As ever since 2008, GoodRelations is kept stable and backwards-compatible while addressing all the needs resulting from recent developments like HTML5 microdata and schema.org. A huge thanks goes to Jeni Tennison, Gregg Kellog, and Philip Jaegenstedt for their valuable feedback on our microdata processing rules, and to my team in Munich, namely Andreas Radinger, Alex Stolz, Uwe Stoll, Laszlo Toeroek, and Bene Rodriguez, for their continues support! If you have any comments or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact me. And again: Please update your cached versions of GoodRelations! 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 Main Page: http://purl.org/goodrelations/ From martin.hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org Wed Nov 30 11:29:27 2011 From: martin.hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org (Martin Hepp) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:29:27 +0100 Subject: [goodrelations] Magento & GoodRelations - Please update! Message-ID: <0767CF15-C13F-4891-9061-090D08DFF5F0@ebusiness-unibw.org> Dear all: If you are running a Magento store and use the MSemantic extension for generating GoodRelations markup (for Rich Snippets etc.), then please update to the most recent version. This is currently the release "2011-11-24 03:09:45", which you can obtain freely from http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/msemantic-semantic-seo-for-rich-snippets-in-google-and-yahoo.html Only this version is compatible with the newest Google requirements. From our Web crawls, we see a lot of shops still using very outdated versions of MSemantic, which will not provide the markup needed for Google. Note: After installing / updating the module, it can take between 2 - 8 weeks until Google will show Rich Snippets for your pages, depending on the general ranking of your site, and other factors. So do it now ;-) And please spread the word to anybody running a Magento store. MSemantic is the easiest, cheapest, and most powerful way to add GoodRelations and RDFa to your store, both for Google Rich Snippets and for Semantic SEO in general. Kudos to Uwe Stoll for developing and maintaining this important initiative. Additional information about the benefits of Semantic SEO are at http://wiki.goodrelations-vocabulary.org/GoodRelations_for_Semantic_SEO 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 Main Page: http://purl.org/goodrelations/