Re: ANN: BestBuy.com starts publishing full catalog as RDF/XML using GoodRelations - 27 million triples

Hi Martin, all,

 the sitemap exposed is not a Semantic Sitemap

Semantic Sitemap: http://products.semweb.bestbuy.com/sitemap.xml

but simply gives the location of the dumps.

in theory if this information is exposed as linked data then one would
like to have a semantic sitemap exposed, which includes other details
e.g. a sparql endpoint some information on the datasets etc. [1]

has this been considered and decided against? should we just live with
it and fit sindice to do some guesswork and process those instead? (i
am not necessarely against this last solution really.. )

In other words are you suggesting the use of semantic sitemaps or
should we just come to term to this? The disavantage is that linked
data browser that wants to use an index to find information will be
able to do so less reliably (hope that our guesswork works)

Giovanni

[1] http://sw.deri.org/2007/07/sitemapextension/

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Martin Hepp
(UniBW)<martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org> wrote:
> Dear all:
>
> BestBuy.com has just started to serve a complete RDF/XML dump of their
> products and price information to the Web of Linked Data, using the
> GoodRelations vocabulary for e-commerce. The data dump is updated on a
> daily basis and contains detailed descriptions for roughly 450,000
> individual items. With about 60 triples per item, this totals to about
> 27 million RDF triples.
>
> Semantic Sitemap: http://products.semweb.bestbuy.com/sitemap.xml
>
> Examples:
> a) Software:
> http://products.semweb.bestbuy.com/products/8182593/semanticweb.rdf
>
> b) "Hardgoods":
> http://products.semweb.bestbuy.com/products/8794691/semanticweb.rdf
>
> c) Movies:
> http://products.semweb.bestbuy.com/products/7590289/semanticweb.rdf
>
> d) Games:
> http://products.semweb.bestbuy.com/products/9223752/semanticweb.rdf
>
> Other than many existing large RDF transcripts, the data very dynamic,
> holding the daily prices for all items.
> According to Wikipedia, BestBuy.com is the largest specialty retailer of
> consumer electronics in the United States accounting for 19% of the market.
>
> It is likely the first Fortune 500 company to start publishing offer
> details on the Web of Linked Data.
>
> Congratulations to Jay Myers from BestBuy.com for this excellent
> contribution, and a big thanks to Andreas Radinger and Alex Stolz for
> their support,
>
> Best wishes
>
> Martin Hepp
>
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