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This page contains additional information and resources on the GoodRelations Vocabulary ("Ontology") for e-commerce on the Web of Linked Data.

Contents

Resources

Vocabulary/Schema ("Ontology")

Documentation

Logo and Logo Usage

You can use the GoodRelations logo on your Web page or any other materials in print in order to indicate that your site contains GoodRelations data or that your products produces or consumes GoodRelations data, but not in a way that indicates endorsement of your product or company by us.

The "GoodRelations valid" logo must link to the GoodRelations validator.

Webcasts and Podcasts

Overview: What is GoodRelations and why should I care?

How-To: How can I use GoodRelations in my Web page?

CookBook: GoodRelations Recipes and Examples

Recommendation: The fasted way to get GoodRelations working for your Web site is the GoodRelations Quickstart Guide.

Most Popular

Advanced Modeling

Specific Industries, Products, or Services

Data Management

Querying and Applications

Community


Academic Publications

  1. Hepp, Martin: GoodRelations: An Ontology for Describing Products and Services Offers on the Web, Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW2008), Acitrezza, Italy, September 29 - October 3, 2008, Springer LNCS, Vol 5268, pp. 332-347.
  2. Hepp, Martin: Products and Services Ontologies: A Methodology for Deriving OWL Ontologies from Industrial Categorization Standards, in: Int'l Journal on Semantic Web & Information Systems (IJSWIS), Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 72-99, January-March 2006.
  3. Hepp, Martin: GoodRelations: An Ontology for Describing Web Offerings, SEBIS Technical Report, December 15, 2007.

Tools

Validators

Authoring and Generators

Converters

Other Tools

  • GR4PHP: A nice PHP API for using GoodRelations data bout stores and products without learning SPARQL and GoodRelations
  • Django-/Jinja-style HTML templates: Very powerful HTML templates for adding GoodRelations data to your Web application
  • GoodRelations Statistics: Tool that collects and exposes detailed data on the popularity of GoodRelations elements in the wild (with RDFa export)

Applications

List of software for which we would like to see GoodRelations import and export interfaces

Producing GoodRelations Data

Shop Software

Other

Consuming GoodRelations Data

Vocabularies for Products and Services Types and Features

You can (but don't have to) use an additional vocabulary for describing product classes and features in more detail.

Compatible Vocabularies for Products and Services

Creating New Vocabularies for Products and Services

For specific vertical industries, it may be useful to create your own vocabulary/ontology for types of goods and services and their features.

Consolidated Dataspace for Linked Open Commerce

If you want to use GoodRelations data for your application, you don't have to collate all the bits and pieces from Web sites on your own. The Linked Open Commerce data cloud endpoints at

provide a consolidated view on  a large share of all available commerce data on the Web.

Examples in the Wild

GoodRelations is experiencing very fast adoption and it is impossible to give a complete list of resources using GoodRelations. However, below is a list of prominent examples.

Major Datasets

Store and Offer Data

  1. CSN Stores has GoodRelations markup in > 2,000,000 item pages
  2. Overstock.com has added GoodRelations in RDFa to all of their ca. 900,000 item pages (ca. 30 Mio triples)
  3. BestBuy has GoodRelations markup in 450,000 item descriptions, which are updated on a daily basis
  4. BestBuy is now publishing detailed information on "open-box" items (e.g. products used in the showroom or returned) and their discounted prices on a per-store level (!) in GoodRelations and RDFa. In other words, you can now check which discounted refrigerators are available in your favourite BestBuy store.
  5. BestBuy has already released details on ALL 1000+ stores in the US using GoodRelations. Fetch
    http://stores.bestbuy.com/sitemap.xml
    or simply query
    http://lod.openlinksw.com/sparql
  6. http://www.shopforia.com/ uses GoodRelations in RDFa for 104,000 items in 26 categories (only on the individual items pages):
  7. O'Reilly has started to add GoodRelations in RDFa to their production Web site. To our knowledge, all individual book pages like http://oreilly.com/catalog/<ID> contain GoodRelations in RDFa (in total ca. 25,000 pages):
  8. Amazon's catalog of 20 Million items is available in RDF / GoodRelations  (4 billion triples) via the OpenLink Software sponger technology, as described in  http://ebusiness-unibw.org/pipermail/goodrelations/2010-January/000175.html
  9. Austrian Building and Construction Materials data (60 million triples)
  10. C-Paintings, an online store for hand-made oil paintings and framed art with 20,000 items described using GoodRelations in RDFa
  11. http://www.jarltech.de is exposing its full catalog with ca. 4,000 auto-ID products in RDF/XML (updated several times a week!)
    http://www.jarltech.de/goodrelations.rdf
  12. Peek & Cloppenburg, a major German retailer for clothing with stores all across Europe, has added GoodRelations in RDFa to the individual store
    pages. The interesting thing is that they expose both opening hours and "brand availability", e.g. data on which garment labels will be available, on a
    per-store basis.
  13. Bitmunk.com is a media marketplace service for music and other types of content.It includes GoodRelations data for all individual items, ca. 11 million triples.
  14. http://www.foodnetworkstore.com/ has GoodRelations markup in RDFa for ca. 5,000 household & cooking equipment items

Product Model Data (Datasheets, Feature Data)

  1. http://linkedopencommerce.com:
  2. OpenEAN: There is an RDF/XML transcript of > 1 Mio product models and their EAN/UPC code at http://openean.kaufkauf.net/id/
  3. http://productdb.org/ exposes product descriptions and reviews from ProductWiki using a blend of GoodRelations, FOAF and OpenVocab. There is also a SPARQL endpoint at http://api.talis.com/stores/productdb/services/sparql
  4. RDF4ecommerce Model Data: There is model data about the 500 most relevant camcorders at

Examples of GoodRelations-empowered Web Shops

  1. www.cheaptotravel.com has started to add GoodRelations meta-data in RDFa in hotel descriptions (some debugging necessary, but a good move)
    Example: http://booking.cheaptotravel.com/hotel/10017444-10210890O.html
  2. http://www.universum-shop.de has added GoodRelations + RDFa to all individual items
    Example: http://www.universum-shop.de/go/DP4Q2HE68YA7JM53XD3OOGVUYTJ5OW31?action=ProdDetails&product_uuid=SWBV7SQBGJMT68TOS9Z3CMWQJOKDS4UU
  3. oxid eSales Shop: http://www.waffen-frank-shop.de/ has GoodRelations markup in all item pages. There is also an RDF/XML dump at http://www.waffen-frank-shop.de/goodrelations/output.rdf
  4. www.buntegeschenke.de has GoodRelations in RDFa in all pages (unfortunately no sitemap file)
  5. Magento Shop: http://www.la-mousson.de/ has GoodRelations markup in all item pages.
  6. http://it.bestshopping.com/ has GoodRelations in most pages (not yet 100% bug-free)
  7. http://www.probioticsmart.com/ exposes product prices and details using GoodRelations and RDFa, based on the MSemanticBasic extension.
  8. http://www.connex-filter.eu/ exposes product prices and details using GoodRelations and RDFa, based on the MSemanticBasic extension.
  9. http://www.kedaisouvenir.com/ exposes product prices and details using GoodRelations and RDFa, based on the MSemanticBasic extension.
  10. http://www.weseeingreen.com/ exposes product prices and details using GoodRelations and RDFa, based on the MSemanticBasic extension.
  11. http://www.discountofficehomefurniture.com/ exposes product prices and details for 1000 items using GoodRelations and RDFa, based on the MSemanticBasic extension.
  12. Plush Beauty Bar for Moms is an excellent example for a traditional beauty service offer (manicure etc.) with GoodRelations in RDFa:
  13. http://www.modernchair.com/ exposes product prices and details using GoodRelations and RDFa, based on the MSemanticBasic extension.
  14. http://www.yorkcatering.co.uk/ exposes product prices and details using GoodRelations and RDFa, based on the MSemanticBasic extension.
  15. http://www.mamazoneinc.com/ exposes product prices and details using GoodRelations and RDFa, based on the MSemanticBasic extension.
  16. http://www.econoclick.com.br/ exposes prices and details for ca. 600 items using GoodRelations and RDFa, based on the MSemanticBasic extension.
  17. http://www.raabe.de/ exposes prices and details using GoodRelations and RDFa, based on the TecRacer shop extension.
  18. http://www.codix.com.brexposes prices and details for ca. 1,400 computer / electronics products using GoodRelations and RDFa, based on the MSemanticBasic extension.
  19. http://www.cardgameshop.com/ exposes prices and details for ca. 600 items using GoodRelations and RDFa, based on the MSemanticBasic extension
  20. http://store.inspiredsilk.com/ exposes prices and details for ca. 1000 items using GoodRelations and RDFa, based on the MSemanticBasic extension
  21. http://www.xtremeimpulse.com exposes exposes prices and details for ca. 500 items using GoodRelations and RDFa, based on the MSemanticBasic extension
  22. http://www.bigship.co.uk exposes exposes prices and details for ca. 200 items using GoodRelations and RDFa, based on the MSemanticBasic extension
  23. http://www.globalautoimports.com.br/ exposes exposes prices and details for ca. 4000 items using GoodRelations and RDFa, based on the MSemanticBasic extension
  24. http://www.golfhq.com/ exposes prices and details for all items using GoodRelations and RDFa; unfortunately, the sitemap link is currently broken.
  25. http://www.suitcase.com/ exposes prices and details for all 3,000 items using GoodRelations and RDFa
  26. http://hagemann24.de/ exposes exposes prices and details for ca. 24,000 household products using GoodRelations and RDFa, based on the MSemanticBasic extension

Static RDF/XML Company Profiles

In addition, the following is a random selection of detailed descriptions created using the GoodRelations annotator:

Static RDFa Company Profiles

There are now tens of thousands of company profiles exposed in GoodRelations & RDFa on the Web. Below, please find a few examples:

Other Data

This GoodRelationsRDFaInMediaWikiProduct is an example of how RDFa can be used to embed GoodRelations meta-data in any MediaWiki wiki page, as soon as the respective patch for RDFa support is activated.

Events

Tutorials

Selected Talks and Presentations


See http://www.heppnetz.de/talks/ for a list of additional talks related to the topic.

GoodRelations in the News

News

See Twitter hashtag #goodrelations.

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank (in alphabetical order) Daniel Bingel, Andreas Harth, Kingsley Idehen, Jay Myers, Peter Mika, Andreas Radinger, Alex Stolz, Jamie Taylor, Giovanni Tummarello, Jon Udell, and Andreas Wechselberger for valuable suggestions and feedback.

The work on the GoodRelations ontology has been partly supported by the Austrian BMVIT/FFG under the FIT-IT Semantic Systems project myOntology (grant no. 812515/9284), by a Young Researcher's Grant (Nachwuchsförderung 2005-2006) from the Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, and by the European Commission under the project SUPER (FP6-026850).

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