- From: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:35:52 +0200
- To: martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org
- Cc: "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 9:08 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, Fantastic news. Have you had a chance to compare the data from bestbuy to that of productdb at all? > > Best wishes > > Martin Hepp > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > twitter: mfhepp > > Check out GoodRelations for E-Commerce on the Web of Linked Data! > ================================================================= > > Webcast: > http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/webcast/ > > Recipe for Yahoo SearcMonkey: > http://tr.im/rAbN > > Talk at the Semantic Technology Conference 2009: > "Semantic Web-based E-Commerce: The GoodRelations Ontology" > http://tinyurl.com/semtech-hepp > > Overview article on Semantic Universe: > http://tinyurl.com/goodrelations-universe > > Project page: > http://purl.org/goodrelations/ > > Resources for developers: > http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations > > Tutorial materials: > CEC'09 2009 Tutorial: The Web of Data for E-Commerce: A Hands-on > Introduction to the GoodRelations Ontology, RDFa, and Yahoo! SearchMonkey > http://tr.im/grcec09 >
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