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

Hi,

2009/9/1 Martin Hepp (UniBW) <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org>
> Now, as for human-readable content: Each RDF/XML representation links to the proper human-readable representation via rdfs:seeAlso, e.g. to
>
> http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8182593&type=product&id=1164154035835&cmp=RMX&ky=1whYTIhnZ0ydleik4tkW4Z7Fn1kPFrBgb
>
> I fail to see how and rdfs:seeAlso is worse than a 303 redirect - which is hard to implement
> and maintain on a large-scale corporate Web site (see recent .htaccess discussions on this list).

Setting aside the discussion of 303, I'm not sure that rdfs:seeAlso is
the best property to use here. IMHO, rdfs:seeAlso works best for the
"RDF hyperlinking" that FOAF encouraged. I still tend to use it in
that form.

Typically when I'm pointing from RDF to a human-readable page then I
usually use one of the foaf "topic" properties. foaf:isPrimaryTopic of
would seem to fit here:

http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/#term_isPrimaryTopicOf

I also think its more useful for agents that are looking for
human-readable pages.

Cheers,

L.

>
> Currently, the human-readable pages, e.g.
>
> http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8182593&type=product&id=1164154035835&cmp=RMX&ky=1whYTIhnZ0ydleik4tkW4Z7Fn1kPFrBgb
>
> don't have a META element in their header that would link to the RDF/XML representation. That would be an improvement. It should actually be sufficient to insert
>
> <link rel="meta" title="RDF based Metadata in RDF/XML format" type="application/rdf+xml" href="http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/id/<this-page-URL>"
>
> Also, it should be easy for an intelligent agent or tools like URIburner to search for graphs that are related to a given human-readable resource.
>
> Simply query e.g. the LOD/LOC dataspace at
>
> http://loc.openlinksw.com/sparql
>
> for all graphs that contain at least one triple of the form
>
> * rdfs:seeAlso <URI-of-current-page>
>
> Also, note that you can easily link the BestBuy data with other resources on the basis of equivalent gr:hasEAN_UCC-13 values.
>
> For example, you can search for the best camcorder for your needs using the product model data at
>
> http://rdf4ecommerce.esolda.com/camcorder/ (that is not proper linked data yet, but still useful)
>
> and then search for suitable offers on the basis of the EAN/UPC code of that model.
>
> Such will show up the BestBuy offers.
>
>
> Best
> Martin
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>
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