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Hi Nicholas,



Nicolas Raoul wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I want to publish data from Wikitravel.org (like DBpedia does for
> Wikipedia) so I need an ontology to describe tourism information
> (hotels, restaurants, spots) with details (address, phone, prices,
> services, business hours). I was not able to find any, so far.
>
>   
> Am I right that currently GoodRelations is only for e-commerce and
> does not apply to such businesses as hotels, restaurants, and
> brick-and-mortar shops?
>   
No, GoodRelations can be used (and is intended to be used) for exactly 
those scenarios: You can use it to express that you

- rent cars
- sell pizzas (or meals in general)
- sell boats

For brick-and-mortar-businesses, GoodRelations can be used exactly the 
same way as for pure online shops.

You can specify opening hours, shop locations (e.g. for restaurant 
chains) etc.

For hotels and restaurants: There are specializations based on 
GoodRelations for the Austrian e-tourism sector available at

http://www.ebsemantics.net/doc/

restaurants:
http://www.ebsemantics.net/doc/gastro.owl
accommodations:
http://www.ebsemantics.net/doc/acco.owl

But you can basically use either plain GoodRelations or GoodRelations in 
combination with a suitable hotel or meals ontology for specifying 
touristic offers.

If you have any data samples or, better, real-world data sources, we can 
help you with the respective modeling.

As a first starting point, I recommend looking at gr:BusinessFunctions 
for Sell and Lease.

Best

Martin


PS: A work-in-progress Web page for the tourism domain is at

http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations_Examples#Accommodation_and_Hotel_Rooms




> I am sure you have surveyed existing commerce ontologies, so I am
> begging for your expertise: what ontologies exist to describe hotels
> and restaurants?
>
> Thank you very much,
> Nicolas Raoul
> http://nrw.free.fr
>
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Check out the GoodRelations vocabulary for E-Commerce on the Web of Data!
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Webcast explaining the Web of Data for E-Commerce:
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http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/webcast/

Tool for registering your business:
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http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/tools/goodrelations-annotator/

Overview article on Semantic Universe:
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http://www.semanticuniverse.com/articles-semantic-web-based-e-commerce-webmasters-get-ready.html

Project page and resources for developers:
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http://purl.org/goodrelations/

Upcoming events:
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Full-day tutorial at ESWC 2009: The Web of Data for E-Commerce in One Day: A Hands-on Introduction to the GoodRelations Ontology, RDFa, and Yahoo! SearchMonkey

http://www.eswc2009.org/program-menu/tutorials/70

Talk at the Semantic Technology Conference 2009: Semantic Web-based E-Commerce: The GoodRelations Ontology

http://www.semantic-conference.com/session/1881/

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