- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:12:19 -0400
- To: martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org
- CC: "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>
Martin Hepp (UniBW) wrote: > Dear all: > > I just found out that Kingsley Idehen released a major update of > Virtuoso sponger cartridges that create and collate "virtual" > meta-data for existing Web pages. > > See > > http://tr.im/bestbuygr2 > > for an example. > > The cool thing is > > - The data does not come from BestBuy directly; it is collected and > collated on the fly from APIs and other resources (i.e. this is not > yet the original BestBuy data). > - It used the full level of detail of the GoodRelations ontology for > e-commerce, http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations (not > just 1 -2 properties). > - It exposes both price information and technical features in > GoodRelations. > - If you request an XHTML version of the page, you get the meta-data > in RDFa for further reuse and combination in novel scenarios. > > There are a few very minor issues with the data; we already provided > respective feedback to Openlink SW. But all should be quick fixes. > > I am confident that this is a major step for a Web of Linked Data, > because the same approach can bring unprecedented amounts of highly > detailed GoodRelations data for existing Web content. > > Well done, Kingsley! Martin, Thanks! But well done (with more to come) to OpenLink Software :-) Kingsley > > Best > Martin > -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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