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At 12.05 06/10/2009 +0200, Martin Hepp (UniBW) wrote:

>In an ideal world, Apple as the manufacturer would / will publish the
>data for the make and model "Macbook Air" in its own domain name space,
>including all distinct features etc.
>Example
>
><http://www.apple.com/products/macbook-air#makeAndModel> a
>gr:ProductOrServiceModel.
>
>Retailers could then announce offer for macbook-air computers by using
>gr:ProductOrServicesSomeInstancesPlaceholder and using Apple's
>authoritative URI when linking to the make and model:
>
>foo:myBunchOfMacBooks a gr:ProductOrServicesSomeInstancesPlaceholder;
>     gr:hasMakeAndModel
><http://www.apple.com/products/macbook-air#makeAndModel>.
>
>(Side remark: This would allow inferring product feature details from
>the model specification, as sketched in
>
>http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations_Ruleset_for_Product_Model_Properties).
>
>Now, what will happen (is already happening) in practice is that may
>people will define a make and model for the MacBook Air, simply because
>there either is no "authoritative" definition (e.g. by Apple) or they
>have no easy way of getting the respective URI (it may not be included
>in their current product database and they have no resource searching
>for those URIs).

Thanks for your answer Martin; in your opinion could 
http://productsdb.org/ become the main source for GR product URIs (I 
don't know if it cover enough models at the moment)?

Eugenio.