ANN: GoodRelations Service Update 2009-05-05 - Please refresh your caches!

Dear all:
We just released a service update of the GoodRelations ontology for
e-commerce.

The ontology is available at

http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1

If you want to explicitly fetch the OWL file or the HTML documentation,
you may also use

http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1.owl

or

http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1.html

Please replace all local copies of GoodRelations by this new file.

The service update is designed to be fully backwards-compatible. Only a
few changes may require small modifications of current applications or
data sets. Those few potentially incompatible changes are as follows:

- gr:description is now deprecated; we suggest using rdfs:comment instead.
- gr:isListPrice is now deprecated and replaced by the more powerful
gr:priceType property.

The remaining changes are vocabulary extensions or improvements that
help increase the compatibility with Semantic Web applications. For
example, we
- changed cardinality recommendations for opening hours and business
functions, which simplifies the usage of GoodRelations in RDFa;
- added PayPal as a payment method, and
- added labels to all elements.

A complete change log is at

http://tinyurl.com/q8yln9

A big thank you for the many valuable suggestions for improvement!

Best

Martin

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

e-mail: mhepp@computer.org
phone:  +49-(0)89-6004-4217
fax:    +49-(0)89-6004-4620
www:    http://www.unibw.de/ebusiness/ (group)
   	http://www.heppnetz.de/ (personal)
skype:  mfhepp


Check out the GoodRelations vocabulary for E-Commerce on the Web of Data!
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Webcast explaining the Web of Data for E-Commerce:
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http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/webcast/

Tool for registering your business:
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http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/tools/goodrelations-annotator/

Overview article on Semantic Universe:
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http://www.semanticuniverse.com/articles-semantic-web-based-e-commerce-webmasters-get-ready.html

Project page and resources for developers:
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http://purl.org/goodrelations/

Upcoming events:
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Full-day tutorial at ESWC 2009: The Web of Data for E-Commerce in One
Day: A Hands-on Introduction to the GoodRelations Ontology, RDFa, and
Yahoo! SearchMonkey

http://www.eswc2009.org/program-menu/tutorials/70

Talk at the Semantic Technology Conference 2009: Semantic Web-based
E-Commerce: The GoodRelations Ontology

http://www.semantic-conference.com/session/1881/




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

e-mail: mhepp@computer.org
phone:  +49-(0)89-6004-4217
fax:    +49-(0)89-6004-4620
www:    http://www.unibw.de/ebusiness/ (group)
  	http://www.heppnetz.de/ (personal)
skype:  mfhepp


Check out the GoodRelations vocabulary for E-Commerce on the Web of Data!
========================================================================

Webcast explaining the Web of Data for E-Commerce:
-------------------------------------------------
http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/webcast/

Tool for registering your business:
----------------------------------
http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/tools/goodrelations-annotator/

Overview article on Semantic Universe:
-------------------------------------
http://www.semanticuniverse.com/articles-semantic-web-based-e-commerce-webmasters-get-ready.html

Project page and resources for developers:
-----------------------------------------
http://purl.org/goodrelations/

Upcoming events:
---------------
Full-day tutorial at ESWC 2009: The Web of Data for E-Commerce in One 
Day: A Hands-on Introduction to the GoodRelations Ontology, RDFa, and 
Yahoo! SearchMonkey

http://www.eswc2009.org/program-menu/tutorials/70

Talk at the Semantic Technology Conference 2009: Semantic Web-based 
E-Commerce: The GoodRelations Ontology

http://www.semantic-conference.com/session/1881/