Re: Excellent News for LOD: Yahoo Provides Tool for RDFa+GoodRelations for Site Owners

Well at first blush this is good news.  But then why do we want to use
a  vocabulary like product:listPrice which is locked to a specific
yahoo domain: http://search.yahoo.com/searchmonkey/product/ ?  Is
Google going to come along with another different word for that?  Then
which one does a catalog owner choose?

Re this example from the referenced page:

<div typeof="product:Product"
    xmlns:product="http://search.yahoo.com/searchmonkey/product/"
    xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#">

    <span property="product:listPrice">27.99</span>
    <span property="product:currency" content="USD" />

    <span property="rdfs:label">Startech Serial ATA Cable - 45.72cm - Red</span>
</div>

--
Seth Russell
www.speaktomecatalog.com


On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Martin Hepp (UniBW)
<martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org> wrote:
>
> Dear all:
>
> Great news: ANY site owner in the world has now a clear incentive to add GoodRelations meta-data in RDFa to his/her page:
>
> As of now, Yahoo will display price and offering details and other
> meta-data of any e-commerce Web page if the site owner uses GoodRelations vocabulary elements.
>
> Previously, such data was only used within special applications
> developed in the Yahoo ecosystem. Now, every site owner can add
> meta-data to enhance the search results of offers in Yahoo.
>
> Just go to
>
> http://developer.search.yahoo.com/help/objects/product
>
> and click on the tab "RDFa - GoodRelation".
>
> The tool generates mark-up patterns for copy-and paste into xhtml page content.
>
> Thanks to Peter Mika and everybody at Yahoo for this initiative! It will
> for sure help lower the entrance barrier for any business to use
> Semantic Web technology in general and GoodRelations in particular.
>
> Screenshots are at
>
> http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations_and_Yahoo_SearchMonkey
>
> Best wishes
>
> Martin
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 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 the GoodRelations vocabulary for E-Commerce on the Web of Data!
> ========================================================================
>
> Webcast:
> http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/webcast/
>
> Talk at the Semantic Technology Conference 2009:
> "Semantic Web-based E-Commerce: The GoodRelations Ontology"
> http://tinyurl.com/semtech-hepp
>
> Tool for registering your business:
> http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/tools/goodrelations-annotator/
>
> Overview article on Semantic Universe:
> http://tinyurl.com/goodrelations-universe
>
> Project page and resources for developers:
> http://purl.org/goodrelations/
>
> Tutorial materials:
> 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.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations_Tutorial_ESWC2009
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 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 the GoodRelations vocabulary for E-Commerce on the Web of Data!
> ========================================================================
>
> Webcast:
> http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/webcast/
>
> Talk at the Semantic Technology Conference 2009:
> "Semantic Web-based E-Commerce: The GoodRelations Ontology"
> http://tinyurl.com/semtech-hepp
>
> Tool for registering your business:
> http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/tools/goodrelations-annotator/
>
> Overview article on Semantic Universe:
> http://tinyurl.com/goodrelations-universe
>
> Project page and resources for developers:
> http://purl.org/goodrelations/
>
> Tutorial materials:
> 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.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations_Tutorial_ESWC2009
>
>
>

Received on Monday, 13 July 2009 17:03:38 UTC