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GoodRelations - The Web Vocabulary for E-Commerce

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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.

[goodrelations] GoodRelations vs. SPARQL endpoints

Martin Hepp martin.hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org
Wed Aug 15 10:34:03 CEST 2012


Enclosed, please find my reply to a bunch of questions related to SPARQL endpoints sent to me as private communication. I thought the answers might me relevant for the readers of this list, too:


Begin forwarded message:

> Dear XYZ,
> Thanks for your email. I hope to answer your questions as follows:
> 
> 1. The GoodRelations ontology is just the **schema** for e-commerce data and that is what is available from http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1.owl. Product, company, and offer data published by using the terms in GoodRelations is spread all over the Web. For a list of examples (yet terribly incomplete), see
> 
>    http://wiki.goodrelations-vocabulary.org/Datasets
> 
> Note that ontologies are NOT knowledge-bases, so by definition, they contain no instance data (unless the individuals are part of the schema, like a day of the week). For background information, see
> 
> Hepp, Martin: Ontologies: State of the Art, Business Potential, and Grand Challenges, in: Hepp, M.; De Leenheer, P.; de Moor, A.; Sure,Y. (Eds.): Ontology Management: Semantic Web, Semantic Web Services, and Business Applications, ISBN 978-0-387-69899-1, Springer, 2007, pp. 3-22.
> PDF from http://www.heppnetz.de/files/hepp-ontologies-state-of-the%20art.pdf
> 
> 2. We do not operate a SPARQL endpoint. There are various public SPARQL endpoints that contain some GoodRelations data, like e.g.
>http://sparql.sindice.com/
>http://uriburner.com/sparql
>http://lod.openlinksw.com/sparql
>http://loc.openlinksw.com/sparql
> 
> 
> However, there is currently no "Google-like" RDF repository that offers you free access to the whole Web via a convenient SPARQL endpoint.
> 
> If the repositories from above do not meet the needs for your application, you will have to crawl and cleanse the data yourself, e.g. from
>http://wiki.goodrelations-vocabulary.org/Datasets
> 
> Note that crawling crawling, cleansing, and consolidating structured data at Web scale is a non-trivial task, so do not expect someone else to do it for you for free. It may be a good business idea to offer such a service.
> None of the currently known free and public SPARQL endpoints provide a sufficient coverage and currency of e-commerce data to power serious e-commerce applications.
> You will have to do that on your own if your business idea requires that.
> 
> See also
> 
> http://wiki.goodrelations-vocabulary.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions#Where_can_I_find_a_free_SPARQL_endpoint_with_all_GoodRelations_data_from_the_Web.3F
> 
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Martin Hepp
> 

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universitaet der bundeswehr muenchen

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