Dear Nicolas, all:
Of course, you can also use GoodRelations in combination with eClassOWL
for describing hotels and restaurants:
A good starting point is the tool for creating basic descriptions for
any business at
http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/tools/goodrelations-annotator/The tool only allows choosing from the first two hierarchy levels of
eClassOWL, but you could replace the class IDs in the RDF/XML later on
in order to make the description more specific.
A restaurant could use the eClassOWL 5.1.4 category 2520 (Food and
services) or one of the following more specific classes:
25-20-01-00 - Restaurant (service), [ eclass:C_AKG508003-gen ]
25-20-01-01 - Restaurant with conventional service (service), [
eclass:C_AKG509003-gen ]
25-20-01-02 - Restaurant with self-service (service), [
eclass:C_AKG510003-gen ]
25-20-01-03 - Cafe (service), 25-20-01-03 [ eclass:C_AKG511003-gen ]
25-20-02-01 - Bar (service), [ eclass:C_AKG515003-gen ]
25-20-02-02 - Bar and entertainment restaurant (service) [
eclass:C_AKG516003-gen ]
25-20-02-03 - Disco and dance restaurant (service) [
eclass:C_AKG517003-gen ]
The proper gr:BusinessFunction would be gr:ProvideService, since eClass
classifies restaurants as types of services. (When using an ontology
that defines particular types of meals, then the proper business
function would be "sell".)
A hotel could use the eClassOWL 5.1.4 category 2512 (Travel Management)
or, better, one of the following more specific classes:
25-12-13-01 - Hotel (travel management), [ eclass:C_AKG314003-gen ]
25-12-13-02 - Hotel garni (travel management), [
eclass:C_AKG315003-gen ]
25-12-13-03 - Inn (travel management),[ eclass:C_AKG316003-gen ]
25-12-13-04 - Pension (travel management), [ eclass:C_AKG317003-gen ]
The proper gr:BusinessFunction would be gr:ProvideService, too.
eclass: =
http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/ontologies/eclass/5.1.4/#Martin Hepp (UniBW) wrote:
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Hi Nicholas,
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Nicolas Raoul wrote:
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Dear all,
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I want to publish data from Wikitravel.org (like DBpedia does for
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Wikipedia) so I need an ontology to describe tourism information
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(hotels, restaurants, spots) with details (address, phone, prices,
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services, business hours). I was not able to find any, so far.
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Am I right that currently GoodRelations is only for e-commerce and
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does not apply to such businesses as hotels, restaurants, and
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brick-and-mortar shops?
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No, GoodRelations can be used (and is intended to be used) for exactly
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those scenarios: You can use it to express that you
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- rent cars
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- sell pizzas (or meals in general)
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- sell boats
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For brick-and-mortar-businesses, GoodRelations can be used exactly the
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same way as for pure online shops.
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You can specify opening hours, shop locations (e.g. for restaurant
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chains) etc.
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For hotels and restaurants: There are specializations based on
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GoodRelations for the Austrian e-tourism sector available at
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http://www.ebsemantics.net/doc/
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restaurants:
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http://www.ebsemantics.net/doc/gastro.owl
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accommodations:
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http://www.ebsemantics.net/doc/acco.owl
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But you can basically use either plain GoodRelations or GoodRelations
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in combination with a suitable hotel or meals ontology for specifying
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touristic offers.
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If you have any data samples or, better, real-world data sources, we
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can help you with the respective modeling.
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As a first starting point, I recommend looking at gr:BusinessFunctions
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for Sell and Lease.
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Best
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Martin
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PS: A work-in-progress Web page for the tourism domain is at
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http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations_Examples#Accommodation_and_Hotel_Rooms
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I am sure you have surveyed existing commerce ontologies, so I am
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begging for your expertise: what ontologies exist to describe hotels
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and restaurants?
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Thank you very much,
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Nicolas Raoul
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http://nrw.free.fr
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