Tools Developed by the E-Business and Web Science Research Group

On this page, we give an overview of selected tools developed in our research group.

• The Product Types Ontology
  High-precision identifiers for product types based on Wikipedia lemmata.
• RDF Translator
  Multi-format Data Markup Converter, can translate between RDFa, Microdata, RDF/XML, Turtle, NTriples, Trix, and JSON formats.
• Currency2Currency
  Frequently updated currency exchange rates in RDF for the use by Semantic Web tools.
• BMEcat2GoodRelations Converter
  Converts product model master data and catalogs in BMEcat syntax to GoodRelations; ideal for publishing rich datasheets from PIM/PDM software
• GR-Notify
  Notification service for Web shops containing structured markup.
• GoodRelations Crawler
  Focused Semantic Web crawler for crawling structured data in the domain of e-commerce.
• PCS2OWL
  A generic method and toolset for deriving valid OWL ontologies from product classification standards and catalog group systems. Available ontologies.
• GoodRelations Annotator: Describe your business on the Linked Data Web for eCommerce.
  With this on-line service, you can create a machine-readable description of your business and your range of products using the GoodRelations vocabulary for e-commerce. Such meta-data will be considered by leading-edge search engines and recommender systems. See here for instructions on how to publish the data on the Web.
• Rich Snippet Generator for GoodRelations
  With this light-weight on-line tool, you can create invisible rich snippets for your business Web site using the W3C RDFa format for simple copy-and-paste. Just insert them into your Web pages describing your company, your store or your offers, and update the XHTML/HTML page header markup. For further information see the GoodRelations Quickstart Guide.
• SKOS2OWL (formerly SKOS2GenTax)
  Online tool for converting arbitrary SKOS vocabularies into OWL/RDF ontologies using the GenTax algorithm.
• .NT File Generator
  Online tool for generating .NT Files from OWL/RDF ontologies.
• GoodRelations RDF2DataRSS Converter
  Online tool for converting RDF/XML or N3 content into DataRSS feeds as accepted by Yahoo SearchMonkey.
• Google Product Feed Converter
  Online tool for converting Google Product Feeds (CSV, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0) into GoodRelations.
• BMEcat2GoodRelations Converter
  Online tool for creating GoodRelations data from BMEcat 2005 XML catalogs.
• RDF2RDFa Converter
  Online tool for converting RDF/XML content into RDFa snippets.
• FreeClass Semantic Search for Construction Materials
  Online tool for demonstrating how the usage of Semantic Web technologies can improve a search for building and construction materials. More information about the project is available at <http://semantic.eurobau.com/>.
• PTSW4Sitemaps
  Python script for the bulk notification of PingTheSemanticWeb based on a Semantic Sitemap
• FetchSitemapFiles
  Python script for the bulk download of RDF resources based on a Semantic Sitemap