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Saturday, December 27, 2008  



GoodRelations Vocabulary - Semantic Web Based eCommerce
http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/

A promising application domain for Semantic Web technology is the annotation of products and services offerings on the Web so that consumers and enterprises can search for suitable suppliers using products and services ontologies. While there has been substantial progress in developing ontologies for types of products and services, namely eClassOWL, this alone does not provide the representational means required for e-commerce on the Semantic Web. Particularly missing is an ontology that allows describing the relationships between (1) Web resources, (2) offerings made by means of those Web resources, (3) legal entities, (4) prices, (5) terms and conditions, and (6) the aforementioned ontologies for products and services. GoodRelations is a lightweight ontology for annotating offerings on the Web. It is to their knowledge the first non-toy vocabulary for describing the types of goods and terms and conditions of items and services offered on the Web. The GoodRelations ontology complements products and services ontologies, like eClassOWL, by providing the vocabulary for expressing things like: a) that a particular Web site describes an offer to sell cellphones of a certain make and model at a certain price; b) that a pianohouse offers maintenance for pianos that weigh less than 150 kg; or c) that a car rental company leases out cars of a certain make and model from a particular set of branches across the country. The GoodRelations ontology is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. In a nutshell, you are free to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix/adapt the work (e.g. to import the ontology and create specializations of its elements), as long as you attribute the work, e.g. by stating "This work is based on the GoodRelations ontology, developed by Martin Hepp". This has been added to Semantic Web Research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

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