- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:36:03 -0400
- To: Ian Davis <me@iandavis.com>
- CC: public-lod@w3.org
Ian Davis wrote: > I'm pleased to announce the first release of ProductDB: > > http://productdb.org/ > > ProductDB is a Linked Data view of ProductWiki.com > (http://productwiki.com/), a community wiki oriented around consumer > information for products. All wiki content is licensed under the GFDL. > > This first conversion contains product names, list prices, alternate > names, reviews and links to external sites for over 20,000 products > represented using a blend of GoodRelations, FOAF and OpenVocab. The > product categorisation scheme has been converted using SKOS. There are > about 500,000 triples in the dataset and since it is Linked Data, all > the entities have URIs. For example: > > * http://productdb.org/apple-iphone > * http://productdb.org/2006-porsche-boxster > > There are some owl:sameAs links to dbpedia resources, e.g. > > * http://productdb.org/asus-eee-pc-701 > * http://productdb.org/shaun-of-the-dead > > We hope to improve cross-linkage to other datasets in the future. > > Talis provides a SPARQL end-point at: > > http://api.talis.com/stores/productdb/services/sparql > > Other services such as free-text search and faceting are linked from: > > http://api.talis.com/stores/productdb > > Cheers, > > Ian > > > Ian, Awesome! A very nice contribution to the burgeoning Linked Open eCommerce Web (LOC) :-) -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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