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Dear all:

If you want to help Google and other consumers of your data to spot the best place for putting your product or offer, you should use the GoodRelations property 

    http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#category

in combination with the Google category name from

    http://www.google.com/support/merchants/bin/answer.py?answer=160081

Make sure to attach the proper language tag, i.e. "en" for English so that clients know the language of your category label.

Examples in RDFa
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a) Product
----------
<div typeof="gr:SomeItems vso:Canoe" about="#product">
  <span property="g:name">ACME Foldable Canoe</span>
  <div property="gr:category" content="Sporting Goods > Water Sports > Boating > Canoeing > Canoes"></div>
</div>

b) Offer
--------
<div typeof="gr:Offering" about="#offer">
  <div property="gr:name">Hepp Personal SCSI Controller Card</div>
  <div property="gr:description">The Hepp Personal SCSI is a 16-bit add-on card that allows 
attaching up to seven SCSI devices to your computer.</div>
  <div property="gr:category" content="Electronics > Computers > Computer Components > I/O Cards" ></div>
...
</div>

Examples in Microdata
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a) Product
----------
<div itemscope itemtype="http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#ProductOrServiceModel" itemid="#product">
  <span itemprop="name">ACME Foldable Canoe</span>
  <meta itemprop="category" content="Sporting Goods > Water Sports > Boating > Canoeing > Canoes">
...
</div>

b) Offer
--------
<div itemscope itemtype="http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#Offering" itemid="#offer">
  <div itemprop="name">Hepp Personal SCSI Controller Card</div>
  <div itemprop="description">The Hepp Personal SCSI is a 16-bit 
add-on card that allows attaching up to seven SCSI devices to your computer.</div>
  <meta property="category" content="Electronics > Computers > Computer Components > I/O Cards">
...
</div>

If you want to the gr:category in Microdata for itemtypes from other vocabularies, you must use the full URI

    http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#category

Best wishes

Martin Hepp

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martin hepp
e-business & web science research group
universitaet der bundeswehr muenchen

e-mail:  hepp at ebusiness-unibw.org
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