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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

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

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

Applications

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

Producing GoodRelations Data

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 at

provides a consolidated view on (almost) 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 and Dynamic Web Applications

  1. 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
  2. BestBuy has started to publish 450,000 item descriptions, which are updated on a daily basis
    http://products.semweb.bestbuy.com/sitemap.xml
  3. O'Reilly has started to add GoodRelations in RDFa to their production Web site, see e.g. http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596007683
  4. SaveOnVideo.com exposes its full catalog of > 8,000 items using GoodRelations in RDFa. Fetch http://www.saveonvideo.com/sitemap.xml (RDFa seems to be gone)
  5. There are more than 45 k Business Entities and 1 Million (lightweight) product makes and models in http://lod.openlinksw.com/sparql
  6. There is model data about the 500 most relevant camcorders at
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. OpenEAN: There is an RDF/XML transcript of > 1 Mio product models and their EAN/UPC code at http://openean.kaufkauf.net/id/
  11. 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
  12. www.buntegeschenke.de has GoodRelations in RDFa in all pages (unfortunately no sitemap file)
  13. Magento Shop: http://www.la-mousson.de/ has GoodRelations markup in all item pages.



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

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.

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